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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)
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Recent news
Publication Spotlight: Professor Andrew Marshall on Science Advances
The article that Dr. Marshall co-authored provides compelling evidence that immune performance is associated with temperature in a natural population of tropical mammals and discusses the implications for population health in the face of climate change.
Phd student, Katrina Munsterman, publishes new paper in Ecological Applications
The study she co-authored with Dr. Maximilian H. K. Hesselbarth and Dr. Jacob E. Allgeier, suggests that human-induced changes—such as fishing—that alter consumer body size and behavior will fundamentally change ecosystem-scale production dynamics.
RESEARCH FEATURE
Michigan News: Vast DNA tree of life for flowering plants revealed by global science team
Scientists use 1.8 billion letters of genetic code to build groundbreaking tree of life!
The most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life is presented in a new study published today in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists, including three University of Michigan biologists.
Using 1.8 billion letters of genetic code from more than 9,500 species covering almost 8,000 known flowering plant genera (ca. 60%), this achievement sheds new light on the evolutionary history of flowering plants and their rise to ecological dominance on Earth.
