Frog-filled Summer for MSB Herpetology
May 8, 2023
This past summer, on small side roads across twenty-one states of the eastern United States, seven researchers from the University of New Mexico could be found driving through the late hours of the night looking for frogs hopping across the road.
Dr. Lisa Barrow, Assistant Professor and Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles at The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB), is the Principal Investigator behind this massive initiative, paid for by a generous National Science Foundation grant.
Amphibians are one of the most threatened vertebrate groups in the world, yet lack comparative genomic studies because of their large, complex genomes. Genetic variability can ensure the resilience of wild populations in the face of environmental change, making it vital to understand genetic variation to support conservation efforts.
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