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Bryan Rodrigues databases maple specimens he collected during his CONN herbarium REU
internship.
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UConn
undergraduate Jillian
Prescod digitally scans a CONN
herbarium specimen as part of our NSF-funded
database
project. |
Kathy
assumes her post
as a veteran
databaser.
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Lori
(right)
works with Tina, who has volunteered to help with our
specimen
database.
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The
strongly
auricled sheaths of Najas
section Euvaginatae
distinguish
the
species from section Americanae.
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Left to right: Middlebury
College students Cassidy
Daloia
& Vicenta
Vhudziak, and their advisor Dr. Sallie Sheldon join
forces with
my
grad student
Nic Tippery and UConn UG
lab assistant
Emmeline
Liu, as we begin a 3-year
collaborative study of North American Najas. |
Conspicuous
marginal
teeth distinguish
Najas
guadalupensis subsp.
floridana (a
SEUS
endemic) from its other subspecies. |
This
remarkably clear,
SW Georgia lake
represents one of the few remaining habitats for Najas
filifolia,
an extremely rare North American endemic. |
![](Najamino_Guntersville_Les794_80x_A.jpg)
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![](Cassandra_Ball%28resized%29.jpg)
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![](Najas_gracillima%28GC_State_Park%29%5Bresized%5D.jpg)
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Seed of Najas
minor
showing curved phenotype
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Undergraduate
research
assistant Cassandra Ball records data from a Najas specimen.
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Seed of Najas
gracillima
from Connecticut
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Lori Benoit
(right)
trains Middlebury students Claire Bovet (left) and Kaitlin
Conroy
(center) in the molecular lab.
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This material
is
based upon work supported by the National Science
Foundation
under Grants Nos. DBI-0847111
and DEB-0841658
Any opinions, findings
and
conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material
are those of
the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views
of the National
Science Foundation (NSF).
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