The MCZ specimens on display in the “Next of Kin” exhibit highlight human relationships to animals. On display now in the HMNH, the public face of the MCZ.
Members of the Hoekstra Lab discovered a gene in a species of promiscuous mice that makes their sperm faster and more virile, compared to a closely related monogamous species. The paper is available as a preprint through bioRxiv and you can also read coverage in Science.
Congratulations to Hopi Hoekstra, MCZ Faculty-Curator elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Hopi Hoekstra has been awarded the 2015 National Academy of Sciences Richard Lounsbery Award for her work probing the molecular basis of how adaptation to novel selective pressures establishes and sustains diversity during evolution.
MCZ specimens from the Ornithology and Mammalogy collections help to highlight "The Incredible Diversity of Neotropical Bellflowers" at the Harvard University Herbaria on display through October 2014. (August 2014)
