Water lentils (duckweeds) are small aquatic plants that naturally found in ponds, lakes, and streams. Water lentils have been consumed by human populations for decades, and are a plant-based and sustainable source of proteins, potassium, iron, and fatty acids. Fifty years of ecological studies on the effects of abiotic factors on plant nutrients have shown […]

Dispersal, or the movement of individuals, is very important in order to maintain natural populations. However, dispersal is often difficult to study. New technological developments now allow us to infer dispersal from genetic data. We will use naturally occurring communities of insects that live in small pools of water in order to study how dispersal […]

Interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer (iSCNT) is a promising technique whereby a bison donor cell is transplanted into a domestic cattle oocyte. Different fibroblast donor cells have been demonstrated to have different embryonic outcomes. Problems with SCNT embryos have been also reported after in vitro culture. Toronto Zoo’s efforts have focused on wood bison iSCNT, […]