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Nalini gets paper, NUS graduate scholarship application accepted

Posted in journal, people, teaching on 24 May 2008 | 2 Comments »

Nalini’s paper (mentioned previously on this blog) has now been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology. The title of the paper is: “Bending for love: losses and gains of sexual dimorphisms are strictly correlated with changes in the mounting position of sepsid flies (Sepsidae: Diptera).”
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Jumping spiders can see UVB! – Paper in Current Biology

Posted in journal, media on 2 May 2008 | 2 Comments »

Photo by Li Daiqin.
Li, J., Z. Zhang, F. Liu, Q. Liu, W. Gan, J. Chen, Matthew L.M. Lim, Daiqin Li, 2008. UVB-Based Mate-Choice Cues Used by Females of the Jumping Spider Phintella vittata. Current Biology, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.04.020
‘While several insects, crustaceans, birds, fish and mammals can see ultraviolet A light, no animal was thought to be able [...]

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