In 1999, he made the groundbreaking discovery that the chromosomes of Drosophila robusta had changed in response to global warming, a finding that was widely influential in the fields of evolution, genetics, anatomy, biology, meteorology, and environmental health.
As we have argued here, natural history collections and the increasingly rich and diverse data sets associated with these specimens represent critical but largely untapped resources for revolutionizing undergraduate education in biology, particularly in the fields of evolution and ecology.
Since 2005 the website Pikaia (http://www.pikaia.eu) is active in Italy keeping Italian readers informed about everything new happening in the fields of evolution in Italy and abroad and suggesting news, papers, books, websites, congresses and seminars.
At a branching point between invertebrates and vertebrates [1], Ciona intestinalis and other ascidians have emerged as attractive models in the fields of evolution and development.
Although numerous biological functions of both organelles rely considerably on proteins imported from nuclear encoded genes, understanding the organelle genome will provide a major impact in the fields of evolution, biology, and biotechnology.
The information for accessing and ordering this 44K chicken array can be found at The chicken, being the first farm animal with a completely sequenced genome, has become an important animal model in the fields of evolution, development, immunology, oncology, cell biology, virology, and genetics [ 1, 2].
He studied the evolution of HIV and Hepatitis C viruses in humans, and the interaction between the fields of evolution and health is what interested him, he says.
"The number of African Americans I know in the field of evolution, in tenure-track positions,... I'm sure I can count them on two hands if not one," he says.
Knowledge of the origin and evolution of viruses could provide a better understanding of a number of phenomena in the field of evolution such as the origin and development of multi-cellular organisms, the rapid diversification of species over the last 600 700 million years and the lack of transitional forms in the evolution of species ("missing links") etc.
This is line with the conclusion of Lloyd-Strovas and Bernal ([2012]) that future studies in the field of evolution education ought to "build upon each other and allow us to move beyond detecting patterns of association among constructs to investigating the causality of those relationships" (p. 464).
