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Offspring sex ratios of wild-caught D. innubila females

The Biology Department at the University of Rochester provides faculty, postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. students, and undergraduates with advanced research opportunities in the biological sciences. The department is united by a common interest in genetic processes which has created a continuum of research interests among the different laboratories. Areas of special focus are Cellular Biology, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.


Department News

  • Professor H. Allen Orr Named 'University Professor' for Diverse Body of Achievements
  • Werren Lab Wolbachia lateral gene transfer paper included in Discover Magazines Top 100 Science stories of 2007
  • Presgraves study confirms large effect of X chromosome in speciation
  • New faculty positions to kick-off Initiative in Genomics & Systems Biology
  • Werren Lab discovers One Species' Genome Inside Another's
  • Prof. Terry Platt awarded "Natural Science Professor of the Year" by the Students' Association.
  • UR Biology scientist, Bob Minckley, speaks out on why honeybee colonies are dying.
  • H. Allen Orr Named Shirley Cox Kearns Professor.

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