Invertebrate Zoology conducts research, research training and graduate education on the world’s invertebrates – their global diversity, evolution, geography, genomics, morphology, conservation, ecology and behavior. These studies are grounded in research collections of hundreds of specimens and their associated data.
Invertebrate Zoology Resources
From the Biodiversity Institute Blogs
Biodiversity Observing Network
March 30, 2011
Daphne Fautin, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, recently helped generate a paper that plans a Biodiversity Observing Network or BON – a system that may be a key factor in encouraging sustained...
Posted in The Science Life
Taxonomy Trouble January 25, 2011
Wired.com recently published an article about the decline of taxonomists over recent years. In the mid-1990s, in response to concerns about disappearing taxonomic...
Posted in The Science LifeNews
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Publications
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Invertebrate Zoology at a Glance
(Sea Anemones, Corals, Jellyfish, Mollusks and Worms)
Established: 1993
Collection Strengths: hundreds of specimen lots of sea anemones, medusozoans, mussels, land snails, crayfish, earthworms and many other invertebrate specimens
Research Strengths:
Sea anemones and earthworms
Sea anemones and earthworms