Monthly Archives: March 2012

Arizona Harvestmen Springbreak Trip

Members of the Hedin lab traveled to Arizona last week, seeking to collect members of the laniatorean harvestmen genus Sitalcina.  The Sitalcina sura species group is mostly Californian in distribution, but includes three rarely collected taxa from montane AZ. We … Continue reading

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Leiobunum Molecular Phylogeny

Paper with collaborators Mercedes Burns & Jeff Shultz (University of Maryland) just published in Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution.  This paper helps to bring more clarity to the phylogenetic structuring of this difficult group. A crucial stepping-stone for future work needed … Continue reading

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