Inquiry-based undergraduate laboratories provide the opportunity to engage students in a research experience that improves scientific thinking, but such activities can be difficult to develop and implement due to limited time...
Convergent evolution is often documented in organisms inhabiting isolated environments with distinct ecological conditions and similar selective regimes. Several Central America islands harbor dwarf Boa populations that are...
Lignocellulosic (woody) biomass is the most abundant renewable organic material on Earth. There is a subset of cellulose and xylose-metabolizing yeasts, such as select Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes, which hydrolyze...