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Evolutionary Biology
March 07th, 2011
The largest Recent family of Bivalvia, the marine Veneridae, comprises one of the least understood and most poorly defined molluscan taxa, despite including some of the most economically important and abundant bivalves. A review of previous phylogenetic analyses including the superfamily Veneroidea (Veneridae, Petricolidae, Glauconomidae, Turtoniidae, Neoleptonidae) and within Veneridae shows minimal taxon sampling leading to weak conclusions and few supported synapomorphies.
March 07th, 2011
The bivalve genus Isognomon is the focus of this Ph.D. disseration project examining the evolution of developmental pathways and ecophenotypic responses.
March 07th, 2011
This dissertation project focused on the evolution of diversity in the bivalve superfamily Pterioidea, which includes the commerciallly important pearl oysters.
March 07th, 2011
The marine bivalve subfamily Venerinae is an economically important group, nevertheless, its taxonomy and classification has been controversial for a long time.
January 31st, 2011
The Camiguin Hanging Parrot (Loriculus camiguinsis) is a new species described in a 2006 article in Fieldiana written by J. G. Tello, J. F. Degner, J. M. Bates and D. E. Willard.
January 12th, 2011
Explore the Division of Fishes collection localities.
January 12th, 2011
This NSF-funded PEET project is exploring in detail several subgroups of the enormous beetle family Staphylinidae (rove beetles), which currently includes over 3% of all described animal species. These beetles occur in virtually all terrestrial habitats, and are particularly diverse and abundant in mesic or wetter habitats, especially forests.
January 12th, 2011
Early Bird is a large-scale, cooperative effort among five institutions in the U.S. to determine the evolutionary relationships among all major groups of birds. The project will make these relationships known to the research community and the public, and make it possible to use these relationships as a comparative framework with which to organize and understand the vast amount of information already available on avian ecology, evolution, physiology, and behavior.
January 11th, 2011
Established in 1894, The Field Museum's collection of more than 1,700,000 specimens are the result of the collected efforts of our past and current scientific and collection staff.