Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report Harvard University

2012–2013

Annual Report 2012–2013 4 Director’s Message

Determination, persistence, stamina, confidence, inquisitiveness and patience are among the cornerstones of a successful career in science.

Humor, wit, stubbornness and charm don’t center for research and education in hurt either. These characteristics and more comparative biology are highlighted in made Farish A. Jenkins Jr. an esteemed this report. By participating in national mentor, teacher, colleague and friend to initiatives such as Advancing Integration many—in fact, to just about everyone. On of Museums into Undergraduate Programs, November 11, 2012, we said goodbye to this Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance beloved member of the MCZ. Farish touched and Advancing Digitization of Biological us deeply, and he is remembered fondly by all Collections, we are developing and who knew him. He really was one of a kind. implementing new tools that foster access to and utilization of museum In anticipation of Farish’s retirement, which collections. And the Encyclopedia of had been scheduled for this past summer, Life Learning + Education Group, based last year we launched a formal search here, continues to develop innovative to hire his successor as MCZ’s Curator ways to promote bioliteracy worldwide. of Vertebrate Paleontology and faculty member in Organismic and Evolutionary Beginning two years ago, the Faculty of

Biology. This search concluded successfully, Arts and Sciences initiated a major effort Catherine Weisel and I am extremely pleased to introduce to strengthen, support and highlight the Dr. Stephanie Pierce, BSc, MSc, PhD, and public activities of its six research and welcome her to the MCZ. Stephanie will join teaching museums, including the MCZ. us beginning in fall 2014 after she completes The most tangible results are the launch, a very successful lectureship appointment earlier this year, of the Harvard Museums at the Royal Veterinary College and the of Science & Culture and the hiring of University of Cambridge, UK. More of its executive director, Ms. Jane Pickering. Stephanie’s professional background and Under Jane’s leadership, the HMSC will research accomplishments are described manage exhibits, outreach events and other elsewhere in this report. public programs while also encouraging more extensive integration of its Detailed plans, developed over many years, component museums, and especially their to insure the long-term care and utilization world-class collections, within the academic of many of our specimen collections are life of the university. The MCZ stands to finally being realized. The mammalogy benefit greatly from this affiliation, and I collection has already moved into MCZ’s look forward to sharing new developments new state-of-the-art research and teaching and accomplishments in future reports. facility in the Northwest Building, essentially ending Phase I of the project. As I write I close by thanking and applauding the Cover photo credits: this, the ornithology collection is making a faculty-curators, staff, postdoctoral fellows Top, left to right: Naomi Pierce; Christopher similar migration as the centerpiece of and students for their role in making Kenaley; JumpStart Youth Connection; Jonathan Losos; Catherine Weisel Phase II. Additional collections are 2012–2013 a successful and productive Bottom, left to right: Andrew Williston; preparing for their move beginning this year at the MCZ. Marianne Espeland; Shane Campbell- coming year, which will complete Phase III. Staton; Gonzalo Giribet; Jeremiah Trimble

Opposite page: Tiktaalik roseae by Many of the projects and collaborations James Hanken Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard University that help sustain our reputation as a global Director News Office

Annual Report 2012–2013 1 Introducing the MCZ’s Newest MCZ Faculty-Curators Faculty-Curator Andrew A. Biewener The MCZ welcomes Dr. Stephanie Pierce as the Charles P. Lyman Professor of Biology new Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and a faculty Director, Concord Field Station Prof. Biewener’s research focuses on member in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. understanding the biomechanics, She will be joining the MCZ in fall 2014 after compared it to modern animals that live neuromuscular control and energetics of animal movement completing her lectureship appointment at both on land and in water. on land and in the air. His goal is the Royal Veterinary College, UK. “Both MCZ The results were surprising. “Ever since its first to understand general principles and OEB are delighted that Stephanie has that govern the biomechanical and discovery almost a century ago, Ichthyostega agreed to join us,” says MCZ Director James physiological design of vertebrate was presumed to walk around on land on four Hanken. “She will bring unique talents and animals related to their movement in sturdy limbs—much like a salamander does expertise that nicely complement those of natural environments. today. Now the evidence suggests that this faculty across campus, and I anticipate many pivotal early tetrapod was moving more like a fruitful collaborations in both research and mudskipper than a modern tetrapod.” teaching. We’re also very much looking forward to having Stephanie oversee the Mudskippers are fish that travel on land by Dr. Stephanie Pierce Brian D. Farrell MCZ’s vertebrate paleontology collections and using their front fins like “crutches” to pull Professor of Biology associated laboratories in their new home in the rest of their body along, and Ichthyostega’s Curator of Entomology the Northwest Building.” front limbs operated in much the same way. Prof. Farrell’s work focuses on whether Ichthyostega’s hind limbs would have barely A fascination with vertebrate evolution led the diversity of species on Earth is a touched the ground, making them more useful Dr. Pierce to study the interaction of muscles cause or a consequence of the diversity in the water than on land. This research, and and bones during feeding and movement. of roles that species play in ecosystems. subsequent findings, were published inNature . Most recently, she has been examining the

Rose Lincoln To understand the interplay of adaptation, locomotion of the earliest limbed vertebrates Next, Dr. Pierce intends to use dynamic speciation and evolution over geological to decipher how their muscular and skeletal 3-D modeling techniques, such as X-ray Scott V. Edwards time, the Farrell lab focuses on the systems evolved as they made the transition Reconstruction of Moving Morphology Professor of Biology relationships between insects and plants. 3-D reconstruction of Ichthyostega from water to land. (XROMM), to reconstruct the evolutionary Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Beetles are of particular interest because Curator of Ornithology sequence of locomotor behaviors across of their unparalleled species diversity and In an innovative project, Dr. Pierce led a team their ecological impact as herbivores, the water−land transition. This study will Prof. Edwards’ research focuses on that created a 3-D computer model of the the evolutionary biology of birds predators, fungal feeders, decomposers, incorporate important fossil material housed in skeleton of Ichthyostega, one of the first four- and relatives, combining field, parasites and pollinators. The lab has the MCZ’s vertebrate paleontology collections. legged creatures to transition from water to museum and genomics approaches just completed the NSF-supported Beetle Tree of Life project, a collaborative land during the Devonian period around 400 “I am incredibly excited to join the MCZ to understand the basis of avian and comprehensive evolutionary study

diversity, evolution and behavior. Stu Rosner million years ago. team and integrate their world class Current projects utilize technologies aimed at understanding these insects’ vertebrate paleontology collections into my many shifts among trophic levels. A new, complementary NSF-supported initiative to “Reconstructing the anatomy and biology to examine genome evolution research and teaching,” says Dr. Pierce. “The across the reptile−bird transition; document the MCZ insect fossils has just begun. of the earliest tetrapods is paramount to unprecedented combination of specimen phylogeography and speciation of unraveling the evolution of terrestrialization access, technology and know-how will no Australian and North American Because direct experience serves education, Farrell also leads long-term initiatives and how that ultimately set up biodiversity that provide educational and research opportunities and materials for undergraduates doubt lead to new insights into the water−land birds; and the genomics of host− for the rest of Earth’s history,” says Dr. Pierce. parasite co-evolution between house by documenting species diversity in the Boston Harbor Islands and in the Dominican transition and beyond.” The team used an X-ray micro-CT scanner to finches and a recently acquired Republic. In July 2012, Farrell completed a yearlong Fulbright Scholarship to the build a complete skeleton from 12 different In addition to her work on early tetrapods, bacterial pathogen, Mycoplasma. Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, where he and his Dominican colleagues established a U.S.-style museum specimen study Dr. Pierce being filmed for a fossil specimens. Dr. Pierce is also interested in the functional documentary laboratory with undergraduate researchers. morphology of modern animals and other Using the 3-D model, Dr. Pierce assessed All photos courtesy of Stephanie Pierce extinct vertebrate groups, such as marine the range of motion of Ichthyostega’s reptiles and ancient crocodiles. shoulder, elbow, hip and knee joints and

2 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 3 FACULTY-CURATORS FACULTY-CURATORS

Gonzalo Giribet James Hanken Professor of Biology Professor of Biology Alexander Agassiz Alexander Agassiz In Memoriam Professor of Zoology Professor of Zoology Curator of Invertebrate Curator of Herpetology It was with profound sadness that MCZ bid Zoology MCZ Director farewell to longtime colleague and friend Farish A. Jenkins Jr., Professor of Biology, Prof. Giribet’s primary Prof. Hanken combines Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and research focuses laboratory-based analyses Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, who passed on the evolution, with fieldwork to away on November 11, 2012. systematics and examine morphological biogeography of evolution, developmental One of the world’s leading biologists, Jenkins invertebrate animals. biology and systematics. considered himself a “hybrid” of anatomist, Current projects in Current areas of research zoologist and vertebrate paleontologist. the Giribet lab include include the evolution of Combining a polymath’s curiosity with a multidisciplinary cranial patterning, the

studies for Assembling Casey Dunn developmental basis of

scientist’s tenacity, he worked both in the ©

lab with live animals and out in the field with the Bivalve Tree of morphological novelty, Catherine Weisel fossils, trekking across the globe from East Life, the diversity of Neotropical arachnids, and systematics biodiversity informatics, Africa to Greenland, the American West to the and biogeography of arthropods, mollusks, sponges, and the taxonomy and systematics of neotropical Arctic tundra. sipunculans, platyhelminthes and onychophorans. He is also salamanders. Prof. Hanken serves on the Executive interested in philosophical aspects of DNA sequence data Committee of the Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org) and His quest to solve one of the great mysteries analysis, emphasizing homology-related issues. on several other boards. of evolutionary biology—how swimming and crawling creatures eventually evolved to walk, run, jump and fly—was his lifelong passion. In 2004, Jenkins was part of a team that traveled to Ellesmere Island in Nunavut Territory, Canada, where they made the groundbreaking discovery of Tiktaalik roseae, the 375-million-year-old fossil that represents a critical transitional stage Jared Leeds

between fish and four-legged animals. ©

Prof. Jenkins was one of Harvard’s most beloved professors, a man of rigorously high standards who took the time to know every student by name and craft lectures that were part science, part art, part adventure and completely unforgettable. A stylish dresser in his pressed white shirts, dapper suits and polished shoes, Jenkins was nonetheless not above donning a body stocking painted with a human skeleton for an anatomy lecture or putting on a peg leg to act out sections of Moby Dick to demonstrate theories of human gait. His intricate anatomical illustrations, made on the blackboard with pieces of chalk whose ends he honed to sharp tips, revealed yet another talent: world-class artist. Gretchen Ertl Stephanie Mitchell “Farish A. Jenkins was the epitome of a Harvard professor. He was a true gentleman with impeccable manners and he had a deep love of learned institutions. He cared deeply for his students, and he was for many of them the best Hopi E. Hoekstra George V. Lauder teacher they would ever know. He was a superb scientist and model university citizen. Every pursuit received 100% of Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Professor of Biology his effort, and he expected the same of his students and his faculty colleagues,” recalls Professor James McCarthy. Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Henry Bryant Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Curator of Ichthyology Curator of Mammalogy Among his many accolades, Jenkins served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1981–1982, was Prof. Lauder’s research focuses on the biomechanics of the recipient of its Romer-Simpson Medal for lifetime achievement in 2009, received a Harvard College Professorship Prof. Hoekstra combines field and laboratory work to fishes and the development of robotic models for studying in 2011 and was honored with a June 2012 MCZ symposium celebrating his decades-long career. He will long be understand the evolution of mammalian diversity from aquatic locomotion. morphology to behavior. remembered for his profound impact on countless students, colleagues and collaborators worldwide. His current studies focus on the function of shark skin Her research focuses on the genetic basis of adaptive and other surface structures, on the role of flexibility in A memorial fund has been established at the MCZ to support student fieldwork in evolutionary biology. Contributions variation—identifying both the ultimate causes and the improving the efficiency of aquatic propulsion and on may be made to: Farish A. Jenkins Jr. Fund, c/o The Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard proximate mechanisms responsible for traits that help how fishes control body and fin position as they maneuver University, Cambridge, MA 02138. organisms survive and reproduce in the wild. Research in through obstacles. Additional broad interests include the Hoekstra lab integrates ecological, behavioral, genetic biological fluid mechanics and theoretical approaches to and molecular approaches. the analysis of form and function in organisms.

4 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 5 FACULTY-CURATORS EMERITI

Jonathan B. Losos Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for MCZ Emeriti the Study of Latin America Curator of Herpetology Kenneth J. Boss A. W. “Fuzz” Crompton Prof. Losos’ research focuses on the Faculty-Curator, Emeritus Faculty-Curator, Emeritus behavioral and evolutionary ecology of Professor of Biology, Emeritus Fisher Professor of Natural History, Emeritus lizards, specifically how lizards interact Prof. Boss, former Curator with their environment and how lizard of Malacology, has been Prof. Crompton, former Curator clades have diversified evolutionarily. with Harvard for 40 years. of Mammalogy, was the Director of the MCZ from 1970 to 1982 His laboratory integrates approaches His research focus is the and the former Director of the from systematics, ecology, behavior, classification, systematics Peabody Museum of Natural genetics and functional morphology, and evolution of mollusks, using data from shell History, Yale University, and taking both observational and morphology, anatomy and zoogeography to analyze the phylogenetic relationships within various groups the South African Museum,

experimental approaches in the field Justin Ide of gastropods and bivalves. He has also published on Capetown. His primary

Rose Lincoln and in the laboratory. the history of malacology. Prof. Boss has contributed research interests are the origin and evolution of mammals, extensively to the Occasional Papers on Mollusks and functional anatomy, neural control and evolution of feeding Jon Chase formerly served as editor for Breviora and the Bulletin in recent and fossil vertebrates. Prof. Crompton is a fellow James J. McCarthy of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Professor of Biological Oceanography American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received two Guggenheim fellowships for his research on Naomi E. Pierce Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Richard C. Lewontin vertebrate paleontology and functional morphology and in Sidney A. and John Hessel Oceanography Professor of Biology, Emeritus 2011 received the Romer-Simpson Medal from the Society of Professor of Biology Acting Curator of Malacology Alexander Agassiz Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology. Curator of Entomology Prof. McCarthy’s research focuses on factors Zoology, Emeritus that regulate the processes of primary Prof. Pierce’s primary research focuses An evolutionary geneticist, Herbert W. Levi production and nutrient supply in the ocean. on the behavioral ecology of species Prof. Lewontin pioneered Faculty-Curator, Emeritus Through controlled laboratory studies and interactions, particularly cooperative the field of molecular Alexander Agassiz Professor of field investigations, Prof. McCarthy and his interactions between plants and their population genetics by Zoology, Emeritus pollinators, and symbioses between group examine the effects of strong seasonal merging molecular biology ants and many different organisms or interannual climate change on marine life and evolutionary theory, A former Curator of including bacteria, fungi, plants and and biogeochemical systems. as well as the philosophical Arachnology, Prof. Levi’s caterpillars of butterflies in the family and social implications of research focuses on the Lycaenidae. Prof. Pierce is interested genetics and evolutionary taxonomy of New World orb in how species associations such as theory. Prof. Lewontin’s weaving araneid spider genera. parasitism and mutualism influence the current research involves computer simulation and The author of Spiders and Their evolutionary trajectories of each partner. Kin, as well as numerous articles Kris Snibbe evaluation of statistical tests for selection. Among his many books are The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change; Biology on various spider genera, his

research has made possible Courtesy of the Ernst Mayr Library Some of this research is functional, searching for genes and/or pathways as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA; Human Diversity; and The identification of 1,500 species in involved in the evolution of insect herbivory on the one hand, or plant Triple Helix: Gene Organism and Environment. He served 66 genera in the Americas. Prof. Levi served as president of resistance to pathogen/insect attack on the other. Other projects are as President of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the International Society of Arachnology and, in 2007, won comparative, seeking to understand the adaptive advantages of traits the American Society of Naturalists and the Society for the ISA’s Eugene Simon Award for lifetime achievement for such as specialized diets in the Lepidoptera. Current grant-funded Molecular Biology and Evolution. his immense influence on spider research. research is also investigating environmental and genetic influences in the

evolution of social behavior in stingless bees. Jean-Francois Bertrand Edward O. Wilson Prof. Pierce has also been engaged in reconstructing the evolutionary Robert M. Woollacott Honorary Curator in Entomology Tree of Life for ants, bees and butterflies, using the resulting molecular Professor of Biology Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus phylogenies to analyze life history evolution, geographic distributions Curator of Marine Invertebrates Prof. Wilson is considered the founder of sociobiology and evolutionary and rates of diversification. In the MCZ entomology collections, Prof. Prof. Woollacott’s research focuses on psychology and has developed the basis of modern biodiversity conservation. Pierce has been involved in a project to digitize and photograph the aspects of marine invertebrate life history, He has received many of the world’s leading prizes in recognition of his butterflies. Recent grants have supported collection of ants of the Navajo such as synchronization of reproductive research and environmental activism. He was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes Nation, as well as the development of a database of locality records and events and ecology and physiology of larvae. for his books The Ants (1990, with Bert Hölldobler) and On Human Nature identification tools for ants from the American Southwest. Topics of particular interest include larval (1978). In 2007, Prof. Wilson received the Technology, Entertainment, dispersal and population connectivity, as Design (TED) Prize, where he articulated the concept of the Encyclopedia of well as human impacts on the distribution Life—a contemporary, dynamic Web page for every named species.

of marine organisms. Jim Harrison 6 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 7 Courses

Graduate Courses of Courses in 2012–2013 Led by Reading and Research MCZ Faculty-Curators OEB 307: Biomechanics, Physiology and Musculoskeletal Biology Andrew A. Biewener Organismic and Evolutionary OEB 121a: Research in Comparative Biomechanics Seminar (undergraduate Biology OEB 310: Metazoan Systematics and graduate) Gonzalo Giribet OEB 10: Foundations of Biological Andrew A. Biewener, George V. Lauder Diversity (undergraduate) (and Stacey A. Combes, Anna G. Warrener) OEB 320: Biomechanics and Evolution of Vertebrates Brian D. Farrell (and N. Michele Holbrook) Introduction to experimental techniques George V. Lauder An integrated approach to the diversity of used to investigate the structure and life, emphasizing how chemical, physical, physiology of vertebrates, where each OEB 325: Marine Biology genetic, ecological and geologic processes instructor offers research projects that are Robert M. Woollacott contribute to the origin and maintenance undertaken in their laboratory. of biological diversity. OEB 130: Biology of Fishes (undergraduate OEB 334: Behavioral Ecology OEB 51: Biology and Evolution of and graduate) Naomi E. Pierce Naomi Pierce Invertebrate Animals (undergraduate) George V. Lauder OEB 155r: Biology of Insects Gonzalo Giribet Explores the unparalleled diversity of fish OEB 341: Coevolution (offered fall 2013) Introduction to invertebrate diversity, with across different aquatic environments Brian D. Farrell special emphasis on the broad diversity of including deep seas, intertidal zones, coral OEB 345/E-PSCI 337: Biological Oceanography animal forms, their adaptations to different reefs, polar waters, the vast Amazonian James J. McCarthy ecosystems and how these phenomena basin and great East African lakes. shape animal evolution. OEB 234: Topics in Marine Biology (graduate) OEB 355: Evolutionary Developmental Biology OEB 57: Animal Behavior (undergraduate) Robert M. Woollacott James Hanken Andrew Williston Naomi E. Pierce (and Bence P. Olveczky) Examines human impacts on marine life A review of the behavior of animals under and ecosystems of the sea. OEB 362: Research in Molecular Evolution OEB 130: Biology of Fishes natural conditions, with emphasis on both Scott V. Edwards mechanistic and evolutionary approaches. OEB 255: Nature and Regulation of Freshman Seminars OEB 130: Biology of Fishes Marine Ecosystems (graduate) OEB 367: Evolutionary and Ecological Diversity James J. McCarthy Jonathan B. Losos FRSEMR 21k: Monsters and Movers in the Deep A presentation of topics that are of current Robert M. Woollacott interest in marine ecosystems, emphasizing OEB 370: Mammalian Evolutionary Genetics Explores fantastic beasts of the sea, both imaginary identification and quantification of biological Hopi E. Hoekstra and real, using historical dimensions but emphasizing and environmental factors important in the contemporary sciences. regulation of community structure. FRSEMR 22t: Why We Animals Sing (The Ways We Do) OEB 275r: Phylogenomics, Comparative Brian D. Farrell Genomics and Adaptation (graduate) Investigates the sounds and structures of different kinds Scott V. Edwards of acoustic animals—including birds, mammals, frogs and Explores the ways in which comparative insects—and the different kinds of habitats in which they genomics can inform phylogeny and produce their songs and calls. genomic adaptation, surveying recent methods for harnessing thousands of loci FRSEMR 25j: Evolutionary Biology: The Lizard Perspective for phylogenetic reconstruction. Jonathan B. Losos Examines the workings of evolution and adaptation OEB 275br: Evolutionary Genomics and through one of the most diverse types of vertebrate animals. the Museum: Enhancing Insight into Evolutionary Processes Using Museum FRSEMR 41u: Museums Collections (graduate) James Hanken Scott V. Edwards, James Hanken Traces the history of museums from their beginnings to Explores the diverse ways to enhance the modern institutions of today, considering issues in evolutionary studies via online databases for conservation, finances, exhibit design, legal and ethical genomics and museum collection through issues, and their role in contemporary society. discussions, presentations and video conferencing across multiple institutions. Freshman Seminar 25j: Evolutionary Catherine Weisel Jonathan Losos Biology: The Lizard Perspective

8 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 9 Courses Courses

BIOS S-74: Marine Life and Ecosystems of the Sea Robert M. Woollacott A review of the life history and adaptations of marine life and the ecosystems of the sea, with emphasis on understanding the fragility and resilience of marine systems in the face of anthropogenically driven perturbations.

BIOS S-158: Study Abroad: Biodiversity of the Dominican Republic Brian D. Farrell Explores the interplay of ecological niches and evolutionary diversification in the organisms and habitats of a tropical island as a microcosm of the evolution of biodiversity on Earth. Jeremiah Trimble

OEB 275br: Evolutionary Genomics and the Museum: Enhancing Insight Life Sciences LIFESCI 2: Evolutionary Human into Evolutionary Processes Using Physiology and Anatomy (undergraduate) LIFESCI 1b: An Integrated Introduction to Museum Collections Andrew A. Biewener, George V. Lauder the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics and (and Katherine J. Hinde) Evolution (undergraduate) Explores human anatomy and Hopi E. Hoekstra (and Maryellen Ruvolo, physiology from an integrated Kevin C. Eggan, Pardis Sabeti) Freshman Seminar 25j: Evolutionary framework, combining functional, This course uses an integrated approach Biology: The Lizard Perspective Jonathan Losos comparative and evolutionary to show how genetics and evolution are perspectives on how organisms work. intimately related, together explaining the patterns of genetic variation we see in General Education nature and how genomics can be used to MCZ History OEB 51: Biology and Evolution of Science of Living Systems 22: analyze variation. Two of the foremost evolutionary biologists of the 20th century were Invertebrate Animals Human Influence on Life in the Sea (undergraduate) successive directors of the MCZ. Alfred Sherwood Romer (1946– Robert M. Woollacott, James J. McCarthy 1961) assumed his post at the close of World War II. He inherited Over-harvested fish stocks, pollution an institution in “desperate” financial straits due to limited income and anthropogenic climate change and rampant (wartime) inflation. Most salaries, he decried, “were affect the stability and productivity of desperately small.” Yet, thanks to his skillful management and the marine ecosystems. This course asks generosity of key supporters, especially George and Mabel Agassiz, what we need to know about the causes by the end of Romer’s tenure “the wolf is, for the moment at least, no and effects of anthropogenic change longer scratching at the door.” to best protect marine ecosystems and The improved situation enabled Ernst Mayr (1961–1970) to prevail ensure sustainable harvests from over—indeed, to promote—an important expansion of MCZ, both the sea. physically and programmatically. He initiated construction of a new wing, the MCZ Laboratories, equipped for studies of behavior, Harvard Extension School and environmental physiology, population biology and biochemical Harvard Summer School evolution, which would “enrich the intellectual atmosphere of the Professor Romer (left) welcoming Museum.” He also helped establish the Concord Field Station and Professor Mayr to his new office as BIOS E-225: Human Impacts on Marine Director of the Museum Organisms and Ecosystems secure the Estabrook Woods for field studies. Robert M. Woollacott The changing of the guard between these two champions of Examines how anthropogenic-driven natural history museums in contemporary biology is captured in a events are impacting the structure and photograph from that year’s annual report. function of marine communities. Gonzalo Giribet

10 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 11 COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS

fossils during their long sea voyage. Small Collection provided valuable assistance during Highlights from the Collections fragile specimens were placed in plastic the process. boxes with foam sheets cut around their The specimen reorganization will facilitate form. Larger specimens, such as the collection initiatives such as cataloging and Plateosaurus, were sunk into beds of two- databasing ant specimens in the collection, and inch-thick foam blocks for added protection. organizing and transferring specimen material Other less fragile specimens were wrapped to the MCZ cryogenic facility. According to in toilet paper and layered in the crates. Rana, “The specimens in this new arrangement Prof. Jenkins felt that toilet paper was are certainly more accessible, which increases one of the best materials for wrapping their scientific utility and value.” fossils in the field as well as for cushioning The Ant Room underwent physical them during shipment. “In a memorable renovations, as well. With the help of moment during the packing process, Farish Collections Operations staff, the Ant Room proclaimed how important it is to have received specialized, lab-quality benches, toilet paper in the field—not only for its intended use, but also for wrapping fossils,” says Cundiff. “He proceeded to show us his fossil-wrapping technique, and then critiqued our skills and the aesthetics of our toilet paper bundles.”

The specimens arrived in December 2012 at the GeoCenter Møns Klint, a geological museum on the island of Møn in southeastern Denmark. Curators at the Nadia Rosendal Nielsen GeoCenter were particularly excited to GeoCenter Møns Klint Specimens Relocate to Denmark United States. Under the collecting receive the Plateosaurus, which was mounted During six weeks in fall 2012, fossil agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark, and is currently featured in The First specimens of Greenland’s ancient fish, the specimens would be housed in the Dinosaur. The exhibition is based on the amphibians, reptiles and mammals were MCZ collections for research during findings of the 2012 Danish expedition to carefully swaddled in foam and toilet paper Prof. Jenkins’ tenure. Over the years the Jameson Land in Greenland and the seven for a 20-day sea voyage to Denmark. specimens have been used for research Harvard expeditions led by Farish Jenkins. projects—both by Jenkins and his Once the exhibition closes, the specimens The specimens were collected in Catherine Weisel students—and for teaching purposes. will reside in the collections of the Natural expeditions led by Farish A. Jenkins Jr. From left: Stefan Cover, Jignasha Rana History Museum of Denmark. updated light fixtures and new equipment for and Steve Shattuck during seven field seasons from 1988 to In anticipation of Prof. Jenkins’ retirement, curatorial staff. Edward O. Wilson, Honorary Mark Renczkowski The Ant Room, Transformed 2001. These expeditions to the Triassic arrangements were made to return the Curator, provided the funding for work Fleming Fjord Formation yielded specimens to Denmark. Jessica Cundiff, The MCZ’s ant collection is the largest and chairs that completed the room’s physical significant finds, notably a nearly complete Acting Curatorial Associate and Collections most important in the world, so sprucing up transformation, and also for a high-resolution Plateosaurus dinosaur and its footprints Manager for Vertebrate Paleontology; the Ant Room was no small undertaking. In imaging system to enable advanced specimen that contributed to Prof. Jenkins’ Mark Renczkowski; Bridget Power; Richard order to make the approximately one million digitization. The new equipment and research on the dinosaur and its gait. Knecht; Tsuyoshi Takahashi; and Victoria specimens more searchable and accessible for renovated workspace now provide welcoming The researchers also discovered a small Wilke painstakingly prepared and packed research, the entire collection was reorganized open areas and increased capability for mammal, Haramiyavia clemmenseni, whose 90 specimens ranging in size from tiny alphabetically by taxonomic group. curatorial and research purposes. mammal teeth that fit in a small box to the specialized teeth suggest that mammals may Stefan Cover and Jignasha Rana, Curatorial have diversified earlier than was previously Plateosaurus dinosaur, which required five The most critical components of the project Mark Renczkowski Assistants in the ant collection, were joined thought, possibly in the Middle Triassic. crates. have been accomplished. However, curating a in the massive undertaking by various users world-class ant collection will always be a work Prof. Jenkins was joined on the expeditions Sixteen heat-treated wooden crates were of the collection. Dr. Steve Shattuck and in progress as new species are discovered and by colleagues from Denmark and the specifically constructed to safeguard the Robyn Meier of the Australian National Insect accessioned into the collection. 12 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 13 Collections MCZ NEWS

A New, Powerful Three-Dimensional Research Tool MCZ Research Making Headlines Over the past few decades, micro-CT Bass fish have been scanned for the robotics scanners have become increasingly valuable work, dragonfishes for the feeding work and Unearthing the Genetic Homes of Burrowing Behavior for gathering detailed specimen data in a remoras for the fin work. Most of the scanned non-invasive manner. By combining this data specimens are from the MCZ ichthyology Relative to physical traits, very little is When the species were crossbred, known about how genetics influence the next generation opted for with 3-D modeling techniques, researchers collection. development of complex behaviors in the more elaborate burrow of the are able to visualize the skeletal structure and nature. When animals build structures, oldfield mice. But when these hybrid understand the functioning of creatures both whether beehives, birds nests or burrows, offspring were bred with deer mice, modern and ancient. they seem to be guided by behaviors that the subsequent generation’s burrows are more innate than learned. were a combination of the two styles. In September 2012, the MCZ’s new micro-CT By matching genetic variations among A team of researchers led by Hopi E. Hoekstra scanner was installed in the Digital Imaging the mice with their tunnel styles, the

Christopher Kenaley studied two species of mice and identified Facility in the MCZ Labs Building. Micro-CT researchers found three regions of the four regions in their genome that appear to genome that determine tunnel length is the standard technology for imaging and influence the style of burrows they build. Their and one that is related to the inclusion characterizing internal structures in three findings were published in . Nature of an escape tunnel. The next steps

dimensions, giving researchers a powerful tool Liz Pennisi 3-D model of a bass fish The subjects of the study were oldfield mice will be to identify the specific genes Measuring burrows for answering a wide variety of questions in (Peromyscus polionotus) and the closely related involved and how changes in those ways they might not have imagined previously. The micro-CT scanner permits deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). Each genes affect burrowing behavior. researchers to look at a whole animal in species creates their homes in a distinctive The micro-CT scanner produces a large number The paper, featured in The New York style: oldfield mice burrows are complex, three dimensions. “The most important Times, was authored by Prof. Hoekstra; of X-ray images as the sample rotates 180°. with a long entrance tunnel leading to the difference for me is that, with a single Jesse Weber, former graduate student These images are processed by proprietary nest and a separate escape tunnel that ends scan, we can measure any part of the in the Hoekstra lab; and Brant software to create a digital 3-D reconstruction slightly below the surface; deer mice burrows anatomy in any plane, something that Peterson, postdoctoral fellow in the of the sample, which can then be analyzed and are smaller, with simple, single-tunnel can’t be done with X-ray data,” says Hoekstra lab. characterized in a variety of useful ways. structures. Both species will consistently Kenaley. dig shelters of the same design and tunnel Weber JN, Peterson BK, Hoekstra HE (2013) Researchers will be able to analyze and length, regardless of soil composition, Discrete genetic modules are responsible for He and George V. Lauder will be using complex burrow evolution in Peromyscus mice. characterize skeletal and other aspects of whether in the wild or in the lab. JB Miller 3-D models and a 3-D printer to replicate Nature 493:402-406. internal morphology easily, consistently and anatomical parts that can be included in non-destructively. For MCZ specimens, the robotic systems to assess how those parts Looking for Lizards in Colombia data can be represented in MCZbase, the perform in real fishes. Museum-wide database, so that users can view After focusing on the anole species of the ecological and morphological data

Emma Sherratt Caribbean islands for most of his career, on anole species in Costa Rica, and manipulate it in their Web browsers. The Jonathan B. Losos is on a quest to study Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico and A mummified bird scanned by full data sets will also be available to share Emma Sherratt, postdoctoral the mainland anoles of Central and South Panama. In three very different fellow in the Losos lab, and with outside researchers and collaborators. America. locations and climates, the team used Adam Aja, Assistant Curator field observations, videotaping and of Collections at the Semitic Christopher Kenaley, postdoctoral fellow There are more anole species on the lab work to document the lizards’ Museum mainland (250 species) than in the islands in the Lauder lab, explains the use of the habitat, diet, behavior, locomotion (150 species), but less is known about technology in his research. and biomechanical capabilities such as them. As part of an effort to rectify this speed and bite strength. “I’ve been working on both biorobotics and imbalance, the field team—Prof. Losos; Rosario Castañeda, a postdoctoral fellow in The researchers are investigating

biomechanics projects that use data from the Jonathan Losos the Losos lab; and Anthony Herrel, an MCZ whether the mainland anoles have, in micro-CT,” says Kenaley. “The biorobotics Jonathan B. Losos Associate based at the Muséum National fact, followed the same developmental work uses 3-D models of real fish to construct d’Histoire Naturelle Paris—spent three path as the island anoles, or whether robotic fish heads that represent the weeks in Colombia and Venezuela in the they have evolved in a different

complexity of the skeletal structure. Catherine Weisel spring of 2013. Biology students from the manner, and if so, why. Universidad de Los Andes and elsewhere An MCZ Putnam Expedition Grant “The biomechanics work employs 3-D models joined the team to assist in data collection The technology can also be used to produce supported the fieldwork, and Prof. to establish how feeding and fin morphology and receive training in field methods. complex mathematical models of how skeletal Losos blogged about their experiences

vary between species and how this variation Jonathan Losos properties affect the way bones perform. The expedition is part of ongoing research and findings forThe New York Times has affected diversification.” that so far has compiled behavioral, Scientist at Work series.

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rojects nitiatives Vegetarian Flies Fond of Mustards P & I Half of the world’s insect species feed on plants. and cauliflower, as well asArabidopsis . They show Encyclopedia of Life Learning + Education Group Considering their agricultural importance, that this genetically tractable system can be used we still know relatively little about the genetic to investigate pathways underlying plant−insect The Encyclopedia of Life is a global effort to The program, run by five New England mechanisms underlying plant−insect interactions. interactions. bring together species information in a free, marine science centers on a NOAA grant, trusted online resource available at eol.org. engages underserved families in marine In a long-term collaboration, Naomi Pierce When fed upon, Arabidopsis generates increased Content on EOL is provided by hundreds of exploration and learning through hands- and Frederick Ausubel (Department of amounts of defense compounds called partners, including MCZbase. on and technology-assisted activities. Genetics, Harvard Medical School) have used glucosinolates. However, these toxins do not experimental infections of the plant genetic deter S. flava. Although the glucosinolates The EOL Learning + Education Group In Support of Citizen Science encourages the development of innovative model Arabidopsis thaliana with the genetically of Arabidopsis still adversely affect larval One of EOL’s goals is to transform how characterized pathogen Pseudomonas syringae to development—indicating that the flies are not and effective uses of EOL content in educational settings. One way of achieving people participate in biodiversity science, dissect defense-signaling pathways and virulence entirely immune to the plants’ defenses—these increasing public involvement, maximizing factors involved in plant−pathogen interactions. specialists are able to detoxify them and thrive on this goal is to partner with model projects By adding to this system a generalist herbivore, the plants. The expression of a number of stress- that inform and inspire, thereby providing the cabbage looper Trichoplusia ni, they related genes in the flies suggest that these genes concrete examples that can be modified to suit various educational needs. Andrew Berry discovered complex three-way interactions may play a role in the detoxification process. involving pathogen virulence, host resistance Fred Ausubel and Naomi Pierce Insects cause major damage to crop plants Contributing to Lifelong Learning and susceptibility to attack by pathogens and around the world, and in addition to learning herbivores. EOL is used in formal and informal about the evolution of herbivory, a better education settings, both as a trusted resource In their most recent paper, published as a understanding of mechanisms underlying and for its tools to organize information cover story in Genome Biology Evolution with plant−insect interactions will facilitate around particular areas of interest and postdoctoral fellow Noah Whiteman (now development of novel insecticides and plant allow for directed and open-ended learning at the University of Arizona) as first author, breeding strategies. activities. they extend this research by genetically Whiteman NK, Gloss AD, Sackton T, Groen S, characterizing Scaptomyza flava, a drosophilid fly • EOL has developed resources like the Humphrey PT, Lapoint R, Sønderby I, Halkier BA, whose leaf-mining larvae specialize on plants in One Species at a Time podcast series, Kocks C, Ausubel FM, Pierce NE (2012) Genes Biodiversity on the Move Google Earth the Brassicaceae—the mustard family—which involved in the evolution of herbivory by a leaf-mining

Noah Whiteman Tours and an EOL page on iTunesU. includes vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage drosophilid fly.Genome Biol Evol 4:788-804.

The One Species at a Time podcasts at Connection JumpStart Youth education.eol.org/podcast are organized What a Complex Web They Weave by scientific topic and skill. effectiveness and accelerating innovation. When visualizing a spider web, it is most more complex than In June 2012, EOL and iNaturalist debuted • The Center for Essential Science at the likely the wheel-like shape of the orb previously thought. an app for Android and iOS operating University of Michigan and others are weavers. With more than 12,000 known Rather than the web systems that enables EOL community testing the Changethinking curriculum species, orb weavers make up about 30% architecture evolving members to more easily contribute to the about the impact of climate change of spider diversity. in response to the growing record of life around us. Citizen on North American species. The EOL diversification of scientists can now key their observations Understanding the timing and mode of Ecosystem Explorer Tool, which provides prey, the researchers directly into their phones, and those orb web evolution has been hampered by an easy way to create engaging graphs of propose that variety in observations are then displayed on a map the relatively small size of the samples in species interactions within an ecosystem, web design was most within EOL Collections. previous genetic studies. To address this is integrated into this study.

likely a response to Gonzalo Giribet significant research hurdle, Gonzalo Giribet Serving America’s National Parks abundant prey and and colleagues compiled a massive dataset • EOL Learning + Education Group, in increasingly complex habitat, allowing the EOL has partnered with the U.S. National that surpasses the size of all prior molecular conjunction with the Professor Garfield spiders to build webs in different types of Park Service in 24-hour species inventories studies of spider phylogeny. Foundation and New York State Teacher spaces and therefore decrease competition Centers, invites students from grades 6 to called BioBlitzes, conducted to learn more The resulting research genetically confirmed among spider species. The findings were 8 to participate in a science-based comic about the biodiversity, distribution and the hypothesis that orb weavers descended published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. contest about invasive species through abundance of species in a specific area. Gonzalo Giribet from a single ancestor, but found that ancestor investigation of eol.org. Participating in a BioBlitz lets anyone get Dimitrov D, Lopardo L, Giribet G, Arnedo MA, involved with nature, increasing awareness emerged around 207 to 231 million years ago, Álvarez-Padilla F & Hormiga G (2012) Tangled in a earlier than suggested by the fossil record. • Families by the Seaside: Building and understanding of the environment.

sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and Encyclopedia of Life People can even conduct their own their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic Community-Based Outdoor Ocean Science The results also showed that the history sampling. P Roy Soc B 279:1341-1350. Learning Experiences uses EOL field BioBlitz using the tools and tips on the of web diversification is probably much guides, observation capabilities and EOL Learning + Education website, games to improve ocean literacy. eol.org/discover.

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New Alliance Promotes Digitization of Nation’s Biocollections Ernst Mayr Library Collaborates on Bioluminescence Exhibition Some of the most valuable resources of Biological Sciences, with support from From glowworms that emit sticky threads of J. Woodland “Woody” Hastings, faculty available to science are contained the National Science Foundation, held a light to fireflies that bob through the air on member in MCB, and Therese Wilson, an within our nation’s 1,600-plus biological workshop to put this strategy into action. summer evenings, a variety of species have MCB Senior Research Associate Emerita. collections. Representing an estimated one evolved the ability to generate light. But Chris Kenaley billion specimens, these collections are The resulting plan of implementation, why? From February to June 2013, a unique Work by of the Lauder James vitally important to the various research, authored in part by MCZ Director exhibition in the MCZ’s Northwest Building lab and a variety of specimens from Hanken educational and technological pursuits of and Director of Collections lobby provided illuminating answers to that the MCZ’s vast collection were on Linda S. Ford biologists and non-biologists alike. Operations , outlines the key question and more. display, including fireflies, which use steps, milestones and stakeholders required their abilities in part to attract mates, As species discovery, documentation and to build NIBA over the next ten years. Once Bioluminescence was part of a successful deep-sea fishes that use glowing lures analysis continues to grow, it has become it is operational, NIBA’s biocollections proposal to integrate Library information to capture prey, and jellyfish, from increasingly imperative to improve access database will be extremely helpful in and faculty research. The project was which green fluorescent protein to both existing and future collections coping with consequences of climate steered by Dorothy Barr of the Ernst (GFP)—widely used in molecular and while also reducing their risk of loss. At change, invasive species, pollution and Mayr Library and funded by the Harvard cellular biology—was first isolated. a February 2010 workshop held at the other major environmental problems. Library Lab, which offers infrastructure National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and financial support to librarians, faculty The MCZ members who contributed Karsten in Durham, North Carolina, various Once its organizational and governance and students promoting library-related to the exhibit included structure has been achieved, NIBA will Hartel, Chris Kenaley and Andrew members of the biocollections community projects. Bioluminescence was a collaborative Williston Adam created a strategic plan to do just that. provide national leadership to implement effort of the Ernst Mayr Library, MCZ of Ichthyology; a digitized biocollections network and Baldinger and Gonzalo Giribet They established the Network Integrated staff, and faculty in the departments of Christopher Kenaley sustainable knowledge database. In of Invertebrate Zoology; Murat Adam Baldinger Biocollections Alliance, a coordinated, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Recevik Phil Perkins large-scale, sustained effort to digitize the addition, the alliance will identify key Molecular & Cellular Biology. The exhibit of Malacology; Rachel Hawkins biocollections held within our nation’s stakeholders as potential members, highlighted the mechanisms, functions and of Entomology; and Victoria Wilke natural history museums, university science lead efforts to train existing and future and purposes behind dozens of species’ of Collections Operations. departments and other repositories, and collections staff, and encourage specimen- ability to emit light. The book that inspired Dorothy Barr developed the exhibition’s based learning and exploration in both companion webguide. integrate them into an online database. In the exhibition—Bioluminescence: Living formal and informal education. September 2012, the American Institute Lights, Lights for Living—was written by

MCZ Opens Collections to Undergraduates in AIM-UP! Initiative Ernst Mayr Library Helps Launch BHL-Africa Universities throughout the country hold a Additionally, MCZ hosted AIM-UP!’s annual Two years ago during a Biodiversity Heritage Biodiversity Heritage Library is an online wealth of information about life on Earth in workshop in April 2013, with more than a Library Conference in Chicago, Illinois, resource featuring more than 42 million their natural history museums. For the most dozen representatives of the participating the idea to create BHL-Africa was born. pages of biodiversity literature collected to part, these collections have only been made institutions in attendance. On April 15, 2013, BHL-Africa was officially support the work of scientists, researchers available to practicing researchers. Now, a launched as a part of the library’s global and students in their home institutions and five-year initiative (May 2010 to April 2015) While AIM-UP! began as a collaboration family. The Ernst Mayr Library contributed throughout the world. Working with the funded by the National Science Foundation among the University of Alaska, Harvard content from the South African National international taxonomic community, rights University, the University of California at called Advancing Integration of Museums Biodiversity Institute to kick off BHL-Africa. holders and other interested Berkeley and the University of New Mexico parties, BHL ensures that this into Undergraduate Programs (AIM-UP!) The South African National Biodiversity as a way to integrate expertise and data biodiversity heritage is made is incorporating the collections housed at Institute (SANBI)in Pretoria, South across these institutions, it is expanding available to a global audience Harvard and other participating universities Africa, hosted the launch and three-day into undergraduate instruction. to other universities, federal agencies and through open access principles. educators in other countries such as Canada workshop, which included presentations Each year under the initiative, a different and Uruguay. by six colleagues from BHL-US/UK The Africa consortium is now institution takes the lead in presenting programs. Connie Rinaldo, the Librarian hard at work identifying content a class that highlights the importance of In addition to training undergraduates in of the MCZ’s Ernst Mayr Library, is Vice for scanning both within and their museum’s collection and its potential museum-based field and laboratory research, Chair of the Executive Steering Committee outside of Africa, digitizing in undergraduate classes. Classes feature AIM-UP! also seeks to develop instructional for the Biodiversity Heritage Library, of that content and building an guest lecturers and are made available tools for museum databases, increase which the Ernst Mayr Library is a founding audience by promoting the project Jeremiah Trimble via videoconferencing to students at each digitization of collections for easier access, member. She contributed a presentation on throughout the continent. It is also participating university. For the spring integrate specimen-based questions and lessons copyright, defining public domain, open identifying potential contributors 2013 semester, Scott V. Edwards led a class into the classroom, conduct outreach to access and the Creative Commons licenses and encouraging them to sign a that explored the ways in which museum underrepresented students, and include more employed by BHL-US/UK. memorandum of understanding minority and female scientists, agency biologists, as part of their commitment to The BHL-Africa group at the Pretoria collections and online museum databases A consortium of major natural history academics, international participants and provide open access to the biodiversity National Botanical Garden can enhance modern studies of genomic and museum libraries, botanical libraries and museums with large public audiences. literature found within African libraries geographic variation. research institutions around the world, the and institutions. 18 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 19 MCZ NEWS: Projects & initiatives MCZ PUBLICATIONS: calendar year 2012

The New Public Face of Harvard’s Museums • Aktipis SW, Giribet G (2012) Testing relationships among the Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi): portrait of a Paleozoic vetigastropod taxa: A molecular approach. J Mollusc Stud 78:12-27 detritivore. Cladistics 28:582-597 When many hundreds of people gathered former Director of the MCZ, served as the • Alben S, Witt C, Baker TV, Anderson EJ, Lauder GV (2012) • Delaney NF, Balenger S, Bonneaud C, Marx CJ, Hill GE, together for the Harvard Museums of board’s initial chair. Dynamics of freely swimming flexible foils. Phys Fluids 24:051901 Ferguson-Noel N, Tsai P, Rodrigo A, Edwards SV (2012) Science & Culture’s summer solstice Ultrafast evolution and loss of CRISPRs following a host shift in Participating museums include the • Anderson C, Liu L, Pearl D, Edwards SV (2012) Tangled celebration, it was more than just a party. a novel wildlife pathogen, Mycoplasma gallisepticum. PLoS Genetics MCZ, the Mineralogical and Geological trees: The challenge of inferring species trees from coalescent It was a celebration of the success of the 8:e1002511 Museum, the Harvard University Herbaria, and non-coalescent genes. In Evolutionary Genomics: Statistical year-old consortium’s first major public and Computational Methods, vol. 2 (Anisimova M, ed) 3-28 • Dimitrov D, Lopardo L, Giribet G, Arnedo MA, Álvarez- the Collection of Historical Scientific outreach initiative. Springer (Humana): New York Padilla F, Hormiga G (2012) Tangled in a sparse spider web: Instruments, the Harvard Semitic single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled • Andrade SCS, Strand M, Schwartz M, Chen H, Kajihara H, by denser taxonomic sampling. Proc R Soc B 279:1341-1350 Museum and the Peabody Museum of von Döhren J, Sun S, Junoy J, Thiel M, Norenburg JL, Turbeville Archaeology & Ethnology. The Harvard JM, Giribet G, Sundberg P (2012) Disentangling ribbon • Domingues VS, Poh Y-P, Peterson BK, Pfennigs P, Jensen J, Museum of Natural History is also a worm relationships: multi-locus analysis supports traditional Hoekstra HE (2012) Evidence of adaptation from ancestral member of the partnership. Together, classification of the phylum Nemertea. Cladistics 28:141-159 variation in young populations of beach mice. Evolution 66:3209-3223 these diverse organizations will collaborate • Ardila NE, Giribet G, Sánchez JA (2012) A time-calibrated on public outreach initiatives designed to molecular phylogeny of the precious corals: reconciling • Dou L, Cao G, Morris PJ, Morris RA, Ludäscher B, Macklin promote greater understanding through discrepancies in the taxonomic classification and insights into JA, Hanken J (2012) Kurator: A Kepler package for data curation their evolutionary history. BMC Evol Biol 12:246 workflows. International Conference on Computational Science, a multidisciplinary approach, while ICCS 2012. Procedia Comp Sci 9:1614-1619 retaining strong connections to their • Basset Y, Eastwood R, Sam L, Lohman DJ, Novotny V, respective academic departments, research, Treuer T, Miller SE, Weiblen GD, Pierce NE, Bunyavejchewin • Eckalbar WL, Lasku E, Infante CR, Elsey RM, Markov S, Sakchoowong W, Kongnoo P, Osorio-Arenas MA (2012) GJ, Allen AN, Corneveaux JJ, Losos JB, DeNardo DF, collections and modes of scholarship. Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in Huentelman MJ, Wilson-Rawls J, Rawls A, Kusumi K (2012) tropical rainforests: implications for biological monitoring. Somitogenesis in the anole lizard and alligator reveals In December 2012 Jane Pickering was Insect Conserv Diver 6:223-233 evolutionary convergence and divergence in the amniote appointed Executive Director of the HMSC. segmentation clock. Dev Biol 363:308-319 For the cover story of Science, As the former Director of Public Programs • Berg Robertson AM, Biewener AA (2012) Take-off and landing flight muscle function in the pigeon Columba( livia). • Edgecombe GD, Vahtera V, Stock SR, Kallonen A, Xiao Jason Kolbe, Jonathan Losos and and Deputy Director at Yale’s Peabody J Exp Biol 215:4104-4114 X, Rack A, Giribet G (2012) A scolopocryptopid centipede colleagues published “Founder Museum of Natural History, she brings (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) from Mexican amber: effects persist despite adaptive • Blevins E, Lauder GV (2012) Rajiform locomotion: three- Rose Lincoln synchrotron microtomography and phylogenetic placement differentiation: a field experiment nearly 25 years of curatorial and public dimensional kinematics of the pectoral fin surface during using a combined morphological and molecular data set. Zool with lizards.” Jane Pickering programming experience to the HMSC. swimming by the freshwater stingray Potamotrygon orbignyi. The Harvard Museums of Science & Culture J Linn Soc-Lond 166:768-786 is a partnership created to strengthen, She is responsible for collaborating with J Exp Biol 215:3231-3241 • Edwards SV (2012). Afterward [on genetics and the faculty leaders of each museum and other • Bonneaud C, Balenger SL, Zhang J, Edwards SV, Hill GE support and promote the six world-class evolutionary history of avian brood parasitism, a response stakeholders to develop the public-facing (2012) Innate immunity and the evolution of resistance to an museums that exist within the Faculty of to chapter by Langmore and Spottiswoode]. In Host functions of the museums, including exhibits, emerging infectious disease in a wild bird. Mol Ecol 21:2628-2639 Arts and Sciences. The HMSC officially Manipulation By Parasites (Hughes DP, Brodeur J, Thomas F, debuted in July 2012, drawing upon the very education, special programs, development, • Borazjani I, Sotiropoulos F, Tytell ED, Lauder GV (2012) eds) 116-118. Oxford University Press: New York On the hydrodynamics of the bluegill sunfish c-start escape and administration and operations. • Edwards SV, Cameron Devitt S, Fujita M (2012) successful model of the Harvard Museum response: three-dimensional simulations and comparison Phylogeography In Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology (Hastings A, of Natural History, the umbrella institution Since the HMSC’s establishment, a record with experimental data. J Exp Biol 215:671-684 for the public initiatives of the Museum of Gross L, eds) 557-565. University of California Press: Berkeley 240,000 visitors have come to visit the • Britz R, Hartel KE (2012) On the synonymy of Caristius Comparative Zoology, the Mineralogical • Esposito CJ, Tangorra JL, Flammang BE, Lauder GV museums, participate in their programs and groenlandicus Jensen and Pteraclis fasciatus Borodin (Pisces: (2012) A robotic fish caudal fin: effects of stiffness and motor and Geological Museum and the Harvard listen to free evening lectures. The museums Caristiidae). Zootaxa 3546:85-88 program on locomotor performance. J Exp Biol 215:56-67 University Herbaria. also hold classes for grades K–12 and have a • Campbell-Staton SC, Goodman RM, Backström N, • Frederickson ME, Ravenscraft A, Miller GA, Arcila The faculty executive board that directed wealth of instructional resources for teachers Edwards SV, Losos JB, Kolbe JJ (2012) Out of Florida: Hernández LM, Booth G, Pierce NE (2012) The direct mtDNA reveals patterns of migration and Pleistocene range the creation of HMSC was made up of as well as for Harvard faculty and students. and ecological costs of an ant-plant symbiosis. Amer Nat expansion of the green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis). Ecol 179:768-778 the faculty directors of each participating For a full list of exhibitions, lectures and Evol 2:2274-2284 Jason Kolbe, Jonathan Losos and other events, visit the HMSC website at • Giribet G (2012) Espiralados. In El árbol de la vida: sistemática museum, including MCZ Director James colleagues contributed the cover hmsc.harvard.edu. • Chadwell BA, Standen EM, Lauder GV, Ashley-Ross MA y evolución de los seres vivos (Vargas P, Zardoya R, eds) 202-209. Hanken. Professor James McCarthy, story “Climatic niche shift predicts (2012) Median fin function during the escape response of P. Vargas Gómez: Madrid bluegill sunfish Lepomis( macrochirus). I: Fin-ray orientation thermal trait response in one but and movement. J Exp Biol 215:2869-2880 • Giribet G (2012) Protóstomos. In El árbol de la vida: not both introductions of the Puerto A Gift for the New Marine Life Gallery sistemática y evolución de los seres vivos (Vargas P, Zardoya R, eds) Rican lizard Anolis cristatellus to Miami, • Chadwell BA, Standen EM, Lauder GV, Ashley-Ross MA, 196-201. P. Vargas Gómez: Madrid Florida, USA” to Ecology and Evolution. MCZ Faculty member George Putnam III and interactive multimedia that offer real-time (2012) Median fin function during the escape response of his wife, Kathy, have made a very generous experiences exploring the latest findings of bluegill sunfish Lepomis( macrochirus). II: Fin-ray curvature. • Giribet G, Edgecombe GD (2012) Reevaluating the Arthropod Tree of Life. Annu Rev Entomol 57:167-186 donation to the Harvard Museums of Science Harvard-based research on ocean life. The J Exp Biol 215:2881-2890 & Culture that will go toward the creation of work will also include a complete renovation • Clouse RM, Giribet G (2012) On the Cyphophthalmi • Giribet G, Sharma PP, Benavides LR, Boyer SL, Clouse RM, de Bivort BL, Dimitrov D, Kawauchi GY, Murienne JY, a new gallery of marine life in the Harvard and redesign of the gallery space that (Arachnida, Opiliones) types from the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “Giacomo Doria.” Bull of the MCZ 160:241-257 Schwendinger PJ (2012) Evolutionary and biogeographical Museum of Natural History. The exhibit will currently includes the Fishes exhibition and history of an ancient and global group of arachnids feature the diverse collections of the MCZ, a Asia display. The new exhibit will open in May • Danos N, Lauder GV (2012) Challenging zebrafish escape (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) with a new responses by increasing water viscosity. J Exp Biol 215:1854-1862 full-scale immersive diorama of New England 2015 in time for the next commencement. taxonomic arrangement. Biol J Linn Soc 105:92-130 marine communities, historical displays and • de Bivort BL, Clouse RM, Giribet G (2012) A cladistic • Giribet G, Tourinho AL, Shih C, Ren D (2012) An exquisitely reconstruction of the ancestral mite harvestman (Arachnida, preserved harvestman (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Opiliones) from 20 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 21 MCZ PUBLICATIONS: calendar year 2012 MCZ PUBLICATIONS: calendar year 2012

the Middle Jurassic of China. Org Divers Evol 12:51-56 Full RJ (2012) Tail assisted pitch control in lizards, robots and newly sequenced invertebrates and efficiency estimation of • Vahtera V, Edgecombe GD, Giribet G (2012) Evolution dinosaurs. Nature 481:181-184 genomic sampling in non-model taxa. Front Zool 9:33 of blindness in scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: • González VL, Giribet G (2012) A new cryptic species of Scolopendromorpha): insight from an expanded sampling carditid bivalve from the Gulf of California (Mollusca, Bivalvia, • Lopez-Darias M, Schoener TW, Spiller DA, Losos JB (2012) • Riesgo A, Díaz Cosín D, Roldán C, Giribet G (2012) of molecular data. Cladistics 28:4-20 Archiheterodonta, Carditidae). Malacologia 55:235-250 Predators determine how weather affects the spatial niche of lizard Nursery or slaughterhouse? What is the role of the prey: exploring niche dynamics at a fine-scale. Ecology 93:2512-2518 spermathecae wall of Hormogaster elisae (Annelida: • Vahtera V, Edgecombe GD, Giribet G (2012) Spiracle • Goodbody-Gringley F, Woollacott RM, Giribet G (2012) Oligochaeta). Zoomorphology 131:171-184 structure in scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Phylogeography and connectivity of the scleractinean coral • Losos JB, Woolley ML, Mahler DL, Torres-Carvajal O, Scolopendromorpha) and its contribution to phylogenetics. Montastraea cavernosa (Linneaus, 1767) in the Western Crandell KE, Schaad EW, Narváez AE, Ayala-Varela F, Herrel • Riesgo A, Pérez-Porro AR, Carmona S, Leys SP, Giribet G Zoomorphology 131:225-248 Atlantic. Mar Ecol 33:32-48 A (2012) Notes on the natural history of the little-known (2012) Optimization of preservation and storage time of sponge Ecuadorian horned anole, Anolis proboscis. Breviora 531:1-17 tissue samples to obtain quality mRNA for Next-Generation • Vélez S, Mesibov R, Giribet G (2012) Biogeography in • Goodbody-Gringley G, Woollacott RM, Giribet G (2012) Sequencing with Illumina platforms. Mol Ecol Resour 12:312-322 a continental island: population structure of the relict Population structure and connectivity in the Atlantic scleractinian • Maddin HC, Anderson JS (2012) Anatomy of the inner endemic centipede Craterostigmus tasmanianus (Chilopoda, coral Montastraea cavernosa (Linnaeus, 1767). Mar Ecol 33:32-48 ear of Gymnophiona, and its bearing on hypotheses of • Russell JA, Funaro CF, Giraldo YM, Goldman-Huertas Craterostigmomorpha) in Tasmania using 16S rRNA and lissamphibian origins. Fieldiana: Life & Earth Sciences 5:59-76 B, Suh D, Kronauer DJC, Moreau CS, Pierce NE (2012) • Guil N, Giribet G (2012) A comprehensive molecular COI. J Hered 103:80-91 A veritable menagerie of heritable bacteria from ants, phylogeny of tardigrades—adding genes and taxa to a poorly • Maddin HC, Jenkins FA, Anderson JS (2012) The braincase of butterflies, and beyond: broad molecular surveys and a • Wake DB, Rovito SM, Maisano JA, Hanken J (2012) resolved phylum-level phylogeny. Cladistics 28:21-49 Eocaecilia micropodia and the origin of caecilians. PLoS One 7:e50743 For the cover story of Genome systematic review. PLoS ONE 7:e51027 Taxonomic status of the enigmatic salamander Cryptotriton “Passive robotic models of Biology and Evolution, Naomi • Guil N, Giribet G (2012) Ecdisozoos. In El árbol de la vida: • Maddin HC, Russell AP, Anderson JS (2012) Phylogenetic adelos (Amphibia: Plethodontidae) from northern Oaxaca, propulsion by the bodies and caudal • Rykken JJ, Farrell BD (2012) Discovering the wilderness Pierce and colleagues published sistemática y evolución de los seres vivos (Vargas P, Zardoya R, implications of the morphology of the braincase of caecilian Mexico, with observations on its skull and postcranial fins of fish” by George V. Lauder, in parks and protected areas. In The Management of Insects in “Genes involved in the evolution eds) 232-239. P. Vargas Gómez: Madrid amphibians. Zool J Linn Soc-Lond 166:160-201 skeleton. Zootaxa 3579:67-70 Brooke Flammang and colleagues Recreation and Tourism (Lemelin RH, ed) 306-322. Cambridge of herbivory by a leaf-mining, was the cover story in Integrative & • Hoekstra HE (2012) Genomics: Stickleback is the catch of • Maia A, Wilga C, Lauder GV (2012) Biomechanics of U Press: Cambridge, UK • Wakeling JM, Lee S, Arnold-Rife A, de Boef Miara M, drosophilid fly.” Comparative Biology. the day. Nature 484:46-47 locomotion in sharks, rays and chimeras. In: Biology of Biewener AA (2012) A muscle’s force depends on the • Sanger TJ, Mahler DL, Abzhanov A, Losos JB (2012) Roles Sharks and Their Relatives, 2nd edition (Carrier JC, Musick JA, recruitment patterns of its fibres.Ann Biomed Eng 40:1708-1720 • Johnson CH, Woollacott RM (2012) Seasonal patterns for modularity and constraint in the evolution of cranial Heithaus MR, eds) 125-151. CRC Press: Boca Raton, Florida of population structure in a colonial marine invertebrate diversity among Anolis lizards. Evolution 66:1525-1542 • Warrick D, Hedrick TL, Fernández MJ, Tobalske B, Biewener (Bugula stolonifera, Bryozoa). Biol Bull 222:203-213 • McCarroll MN, Lewis ZR, Culbertson MD, Martin BL, AA (2012) Hummingbird flight.Curr Biol 22:472-477 • Sanger TJ, Revell LJ, Gibson-Brown JJ, Losos JB (2012) Kimelman D, Nechiporuk AV (2012) Graded levels of Pax2a • Johnson CH, Winston JE, Woollacott RM (2012) Western Repeated modification of early limb morphogenesis • Wheeler QD, Knapp S, Stevenson DW, Stevenson J, Blum and Pax8 regulate cell differentiation during sensory placode Atlantic introduction and persistence of the marine programmes underlies the convergence of relative limb SD, Boom BM, Borisy GG, Buizer JL, de Carvalho MR, formation. Development 139:2740-2750 bryozoan Tricellaria inopinata. Aquat Invas 7:295-303 length in Anolis lizards. Proc R Soc London 279:739-748 Cibrian A, Donoghue MJ, Doyle V, Gerson EM, Graham • Miller J, Dikow T, Agosti D, Sautter G, Catapano T, Penev CH, Graves P, Graves SJ, Guralnick RP, Hamilton AL, • Kawauchi GY, Sharma PP, Giribet G (2012) Sipunculan • Sharma PP, Buenavente PAC, Clouse RM, Diesmos L, Zhang Z-Q, Pentcheff D, Pyle R, Blum S, Parr C, Freeland Hanken J, Wilson EO, et al (2012) Mapping the biosphere: phylogeny based on six genes, with a new classification and AC, Giribet G (2012) Forgotten gods: Zalmoxidae of the C, Garnett T, Ford LS, Muller B, Smith L, Strader G, Exploring species to understand the origin, organization, and the descriptions of two new families. Zool Scr 41:186-210 Philippines and Borneo (Opiliones: Laniatores). Zootaxa Georgiev T, Bénichou L (2012) From taxonomic literature to sustainability of biodiversity. Syst Biodivers 10:1-20 3280:29-55 • Kleinteich T, Maddin HC, Herzen J, Beckmann F, Summers cybertaxonomic content. BMC Biology 10:87 • Whiteman NK, Gloss AD, Sackton TB, Groen SC, AP (2012) Is solid always best? Cranial performance in solid • Sharma PP, Giribet G (2012) Out of the Neotropics: • Novo M, Alnodóvar A, Fernández R, Trigo D, Díaz-Cosín Humphrey PT, Lapoint RT, Sønderby IE, Halkier BA, Kocks and fenestrated caecilian skulls. J Exp Biol 215:833-844 Late Cretaceous colonization of Australasia by American DJ, Giribet G (2012) Appearances can be deceptive: different C, Ausubel FM, Pierce NE (2012) Genes involved in the arthropods. Proc R Soc B 279:3501-3509 • Kolbe JJ, Leal M, Schoener TW, Spiller DA, Losos JB (2012) diversification patterns within a group of Mediterranean evolution of herbivory by a leaf-mining, drosophilid fly. Founder effects persist despite adaptive differentiation: a field earthworms (Oligochaeta, Hormogastridae). Mol Ecol 21:3776-3793 • Sharma PP, González VL, Kawauchi GY, Andrade SCS, Genome Biol Evol 4:900-916 Thom Sanger, Jonathan B. Losos experiment with lizards. Science 335:1086-1089 Guzmán A, Collins TM, Glover EA, Harper EM, Healy • Novo M, Riesgo A, Roldán C, Giribet G, Díaz Cosín DJ (2012) A • Wilga CD, Maia A, Nauwelaerts S, Lauder GV (2012) Prey and colleagues contributed JM, Mikkelsen PM, Taylor JD, Bieler R, Giribet G (2012) • Kolbe JJ, Vanmiddlesworth P, Losin N, Dappen N, Losos place for nourishment or a slaughterhouse? Elucidating the role of handling using whole body fluid dynamics in batoids.Zoology The Social Conquest of Earth is a new “Repeated modification of early Phylogenetic analysis of four nuclear protein-encoding genes JB (2012) Climatic niche shift predicts thermal trait response spermathecae in the terrestrial annelid Hormogaster elisae (Clitellata: 115:47-57 book by Edward O. Wilson. largely corroborates the traditional classification of Bivalvia limb morphogenesis programmes in one but not both introductions of the Puerto Rican lizard Opisthopora: Hormogastridae). Zoomorphology 131:171-184 (Mollusca). Mol Phylogenet Evol 65:64-74 • Wilson EO (2012) The Social Conquest of Earth. Liveright underlies the convergence of Anolis cristatellus to Miami, Florida, USA. Ecol Evol 2:1503-1516 • Oeffner J, Lauder GV (2012) The hydrodynamic function of Publishing Company of W.W. Norton & Company: New York relative limb length in Anolis • Sharma PP, Schwager EE, Extavour CG, Giribet G (2012) • Kronauer DJC, Pierce NE, Keller L (2012) Asexual shark skin and two biomimetic applications. J Exp Biol 215:785-795 lizards” as the cover story of Evolution of the chelicera: a dachshund domain is retained • Wilson EO, Harris A (2012) Why We Are Here. Liveright reproduction in introduced and native populations of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. • Peterson BK, Weber JN, Kay EH, Fisher HS, Hoekstra HE in the deutocerebral appendage of Opiliones (Arthropoda, Publishing Company of W.W. Norton & Company: New York ant Cerapachys biroi. Mol Ecol 21:5221-5235 (2012) Double Digest RADseq: an inexpensive method for de Chelicerata). Evol Dev 14:522-533 • Worsaae K, Sterrer W, Kaul-Strehlow S, Hay-Schmidt A, • Kronforst MR, Barsh GS, Kopp A, Mallet J, Monteiro novo SNP discovery and genotyping in model and non-model • Sharma PP, Schwager EE, Extavour CG, Giribet G (2012) Giribet G (2012) An anatomical description of a miniaturized A, Mullen SP, Protas M, Rosenblum EB, Schneider CJ species. PLoS One 7:e37135 Hox gene expression in the harvestman Phalangium opilio acorn worm (Hemichordata, Enteropneusta) with asexual Hoekstra HE (2012) Unraveling the thread of nature’s • Rabeling C, Verhaagh M, Garcia MVB (2012) Observations reveals divergent patterning of the chelicerate opisthosoma. reproduction by paratomy. PLoS ONE 7:e48529 tapestry: the genetics of diversity and convergence in animal on the specialized predatory behavior of the pitchfork- Evol Dev 14:450-463 pigmentation. Pigm Cell Melanoma R 25:411-433 • Wu S, Wu W, Zhang F, Ye J, Ni X, Sun J, Edwards SV, Meng mandibled ponerine ant Thaumatomyrmex paludis • Song S, Liu L, Edwards SV, Wu S (2012) Resolving conflict J, Organ CL (2012) Molecular and paleontological evidence • Küpper C, Augustin J, Edwards SV, Székely T, Kosztolányi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Breviora 533:1-8 in eutherian mammal phylogeny using phylogenomics and for a post-Cretaceous origin of rodents. PLoS ONE 7:e46445 A, Burke T, Janes DE (2012) Triploid plover female provides • Raposo do Amaral F, Edwards SV, Miyaki CY (2012) Eight the multispecies coalescent model. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA support for a role of the W chromosome in avian sex • Wu Y, Wang Y, Hanken J (2012) Comparative osteology anonymous nuclear loci for the squamate antbird (Myrmeciza 109:14942-14947 determination. Biol Lett 8:787-789 of the genus Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from squamosa), cross-amplifiable in other species of typical antbirds • Š áhlavský F, Boyer SL, Harvey MS, Giribet G (2012) First southeastern China. Asian Herpetol Res 3:83-102 • Küpper C, Edwards SV, Kosztolányi A, et al (2012) High (Aves, Thamnophilidae). Conserv Genet Resources 4:645-647 ť cytogenetic study of a member of the harvestman family Pettalidae gene flow over large geographic distances in a polyandrous • Wu Y, Wang Y, Hanken J (2012) New species of Pachytriton • Reaney LT, Yee S, Losos JB, Whiting MJ (2012) Ecology (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi). Aust J Entomol 51:299-302 As the cover story of Asian shorebird. Mol Ecol 21:5864-5879 (Caudata: Salamandridae) from the Nanling Mountain of the flap-necked chameleonChamaeleo dilepis in southern Herpetological Research, Yunke Wu • Stuart YE, Losos JB, Algar AC (2012) The island-mainland Range, southeastern China. Zootaxa 3388:1-16 • Lauder GV, Flammang B, Alben S (2012) Passive robotic Africa. Breviora 532:1-18 and James Hanken published species turnover relationship. Proc R Soc B 279:4071-4077 models of propulsion by the bodies and caudal fins of fish. • Zhang Q, Edwards SV (2012) The evolution of intron • Riehl C (2012) Parental care and reproductive skew in a “Comparative osteology of the genus Talia Moore and colleagues at the Integr Comp Biol 52:576-587 • Talavera G, Lukhtanov VA, Pierce NE, Vila R (2012) size in amniotes: a role for powered flight?Genome Biol Evol communally breeding cuckoo: hard-working males do not Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) University of California, Berkeley, Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using 4:1033-1043 • Lee JY, Joseph L, Edwards SV (2012) A species tree for the sire more young. Anim Behav 84:707-714 from southeastern China.” contributed the cover story “Tail molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies Australo-Papuan fairy-wrens and allies (Aves: Maluridae). Syst • Zimkus BM, Lawson L, Loader SP, Hanken J (2012) assisted pitch control in lizards, • Riesgo A, Andrade SC, Sharma PP, Novo M, Pérez-Porro (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics 29:166-192 Biol 61:253-271 Terrestrialization, miniaturization and rates of diversification in sub- robots and dinosaurs” to Nature. AR, Vahtera V, González VL, Kawauchi GY, Giribet G • Tong W, Hoekstra HE (2012) Mus spicilegus. Curr Biol 20:858-859 Saharan frogs (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae). PLoS ONE 7:e35118 • Libby T, Moore TY, Chang-Siu E, Li D, Cohen D, Jusufi A, (2012) Comparative description of ten transcriptomes of 22 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 23 GRANTS

MCZ Grant Recipients Academic Year 2012–2013

Grants-In-Aid of Undergraduate Research (GUR) These grants support research by Harvard undergraduates under faculty supervision. Priority is given to projects that utilize MCZ and Harvard University Herbaria (HUH) research collections, laboratories and facilities. Support for these grants comes from the MCZ’s Myvanwy M. and George M. Dick Scholarship for Students and from HUH. Didem Sarikaya Recipient Faculty Sponsor/ Project Title Amount Academic Dept. Recipient Faculty Sponsor/ Project Title Amount Saad Amer Charles C. Davis/ Ecology and evolution of the microsoroid $2,032 Organismic and ferns of French Polynesia Academic Dept. Evolutionary Biology Courtland A. Kelly Charles C. Davis/ Climate change and flowering time in $2,500 Armaghan N. Behlum Bence P. Olveczky/ Calibrating the dosage of Muscimol $2,300 Organismic and New England Organismic and necessary to temporarily suppress cortex Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Biology Alexander M. Kim Gonzalo Giribet/ From the Gulf of Guinea to the bridge of the $1,043 Mia S. Bertalan Lauren O’Connell/ Poison dart frog toxins as anti-microbial/ $1,250 Organismic and world: transoceanic dispersal and human- Center for Systems anti-fungal agents Evolutionary Biology mediated invasion in a pantropical genus of Biology freshwater prawns Emily A. Burke Gonzalo Giribet/ Phylogeny of Bdellouridae: genetic diversity $2,500 Sang Il Kim Brian D. Farrell/ A systematic review of the Dorcus velutinus $1,260 Organismic and and population structure of commensal Organismic and species group (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) Evolutionary Biology flatworms Evolutionary Biology through an integrative taxonomic approach [Fall Cycle] Inanna L. Carter Charles Davis/ Insect herbivore community of Hawaiian $2,233 Organismic and lobeliads Sang Il Kim Brian D. Farrell/ Undiscovered diversity in the stag beetle $1,645 Evolutionary Biology Organismic and populations of the Dorcus velutinus Evolutionary Biology species group (Lucanidae: Coleoptera) Alexander J. Cunha Andrew Richardson/ Marine nutrient flux in the Klamath River $2,500 [Spring Cycle] Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Mai T. Le Scott V. Edwards/ The evolution of genetic pathogen $2,500

Darko Cartoras Organismic and (Mycoplasma gallisepticum) resistance in the Tyler W. Gamble Jonathan B. Losos/ Structural microhabitat use in Utilan anoles $2,500 Evolutionary Biology North American house finch Organismic and (Norops bicaorum, N. utilensis, N. sericeus) Evolutionary Biology Sarah J. Scalia Hopi E. Hoekstra/ In situ hybridization to understand $1,411 Organismic and burrowing behavior of Peromyscus Kyle O’Connell Emily E. Groopman Richard W. Energetic consequences of food processing $2,412 Evolutionary Biology Wrangham/ Human on lipid and protein-rich foods Evolutionary Biology Alexandra Stote George V. Lauder/ Disc-suction performance of echeneid fishes $2,500 Organismic and Fiona V. Jevon J. William Munger/ Red maple decline at the Harvard Forest $700 Evolutionary Biology School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Tristan W. Wang Charles C. Davis/ Physiology and distribution of filmy ferns of $2,032 & Andrew Richardson/ Organismic and French Polynesia Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Emily Groopman Evolutionary Biology Total Awards $33,318

Robert G. Goelet Summer Research Awards Alexander Kim Goelet Awards support MCZ graduate student summer research projects. Funds support travel to field sites and related subsistence expenses incurred in pursuit of research objectives. These grants are made possible through a gift from Mr. Robert G. Goelet.

Recipient MCZ Department Project Title Amount Nicole L. Bedford Mammalogy The natural history of burrowing in the $3,275 oldfield mouse, Peromyscus polionotus Zachary Lewis Herpetology Field collection of lungless salamander $1,625 embryos Total Awards $4,900 Rowan Barrett Inanna Carter Szabolcs Safian

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Ernst Mayr Travel Grants in Animal Systematics Putnam Expedition Grants Ernst Mayr Grants support travel for research in animal systematics and are open to the scientific Putnam Expedition Grants are intended to support MCZ faculty-curators, postdoctoral community worldwide. The principal objective of these grants is to stimulate taxonomic work fellows and graduate students in collecting specimens and data relating to the study of on neglected taxa and/or poorly described species. Ernst Mayr Grants typically facilitate visits comparative zoology. Priority is given to projects that collect living specimens in regions to institutional collections, with preference given to research that uses MCZ’s collections. These where habitats are threatened or fossil specimens in regions most likely to hold important grants are made possible by a gift from Professor and former MCZ Director Ernst Mayr. clues for unraveling evolutionary strategies. These grants are made possible by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam, Jr., ’49. Recipient Institutional Project Title Amount Affiliation Recipient MCZ Department Project Title Amount Viktor Baranov National Academy of Underestimated groups of non-biting $1,000 Rowan D. H. Barrett Mammalogy Evolution in action in the Sand Hills of $11,080 Science, Ukraine midges (Diptera, Chironomidae) in Bergen Nebraska University Museum collection Leonora S. Bittleston Entomology The insect communities of convergently $7,140 Brendan E. Boudinot University of Utah The male ants of Central America; keys to $1,500 evolved pitcher plants in Borneo and diagnoses of the subfamilies and genera Scott V. Edwards Ornithology Genetics and winter incidence of the $5,690

Adam J. Brunke University of A world revision of Bolitogyrus (Coleoptera: $1,500 pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum on Marianna Simões Copenhagen Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) house finches and other birds Rowan Barrett Caroline Chaboo University of Kansas Systematics of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: $1,200 Marianne Espeland Entomology Phylogeny of the Euchrysops section $7,436 Chrysomelidae): immature stages, fossils, (Polyommatinae): Biogeography and faunistics, and genera revisions the evolution of feeding habits and wing coloration Elisandra A. Chiquito Universidade de São The genus Nectomys Peters, 1860 $1,400 Paulo, Brazil (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae): systematics Rosa M. Fernández Invertebrate Zoology Exploring cryptic diversity in soil animals: a $10,385 and biogeography case study in earthworms and harvestmen Susan M. Drymala North Carolina State Taxonomic assessment of a new $1,500 Patrick S. Gorring Entomology Systematics and determinants of $4,120 University paracrocodylomorph (Archosauria, Suchia) diversity in Monochamus (Coleoptera: from the Late Triassic of North Carolina Cerambycidae)

Michael Elias University of New Systematics of Orthotylini (Insecta: $1,500 Emily H. Kay Mammalogy Habitat and temporal isolation in two $6,557 Theo Sumnicht South Wales Heteroptera: Miridae) of the southwest Pacific Peromyscus sister species Georg Fischer California Academy Taxonomy of Pheidole from Madagascar $1,500 Sarah Lemer Invertebrate Zoology Collecting bivalves of the family Pinnidae in $10,192 of Sciences the Philippines Andrey V. Frolov Russian Academy of Revision of Madagascar Orphninae $1,450 Jonathan B. Losos Herpetology Field studies of the evolutionary diversity of $9,710 Sciences Colombian Anolis lizards Francisco Hita Garcia California Academy Taxonomic revision of the myrmicine ant $740 Ricardo Mallarino Mammalogy The genetic and developmental basis $5,842 of Sciences genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: of adaptive traits: coat color variation in Marianne Espeland Formicidae) Peromyscus of the Tularosa Basin, New Mexico Igor Khorozyan Georg-August Using computed tomography to study the $1,200 Universität skull of the holotype Anatolian leopard Christina Pauline Riehl Ornithology Evolution of parasitic and cooperative $5,000 Göttingen, Germany Panthera pardus tulliana (Valenciennes, 1865) strategies in a communally breeding cuckoo Tomáš Lackner Czech University of Systematic revision of the genera of the $1,500 Bruno A. Souza de Entomology Insect-host interactions and rates of $4,750 Life Sciences Saprininae subfamily Medeiros evolution in a community of palm weevils Francisco Tiago M. Federal University of Revision of species in the genus $1,500 Total Awards $87,902 Melo Pará, Brazil Diplectanum Diesing, 1858 Mark T. O’Shea University of The systematics and distribution of the $1,500

Wolverhampton, UK endemic New Guinea forest snakes of the Francisco Hita Garcia genus Toxicocalamus (Serpentes, Elapidae) Miyata Grants Daniel N. Proud University of Taxonomic work on Cosmetidae and other $1,500 The Ken Miyata Fund for Field Research Awards are intended to enable herpetological Louisiana at Lafayette harvestmen (Opiliones) of Central America fieldwork by MCZ graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Non-herpetological fieldwork Andrey Frolor Jacob R. Saucier University of Wyoming Characterizing genetic and morphological $1,500 may be eligible when there are no deserving herpetological projects. These grants are made variation in the Cantorchilus modestus complex possible by a gift from Dr. Barbara Jil Wu, Ph.D. ’81 and Mr. Eric Larson, A.B. ’77. Marianna V.P. Simões University of Kansas, Systematics of tortoise beetle tribe $1,062 Lawrence Dorynotini Monrós & Viana, 1949 Recipient MCZ Department Project Title Amount (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) Katherine E. Boronow Herpetology The impact of an intraguild predator, $4,200 Theodore Sumnicht University of Utah Taxonomic revision of Cerapachys $1,250 Anolis equestris, on prey behavior and Carly M. Tribull Richard Gilder Taxonomic revision of the subfamily $1,500 evolution Graduate School, Gonatopodinae (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae) Ambika Kamath Herpetology Can anthropogenic change drive variation $4,320 American Museum in mating systems in the South Asian of Natural History agamid lizard Sitana ponticeriana? Total Awards $25,802 Total Awards $8,520 Ambika Kamath Igor Khorozyan 26 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 27 Honors Awards & Recognition Staff Emily Kay was the recipient Stefan Cover, Curatorial Assistant in the of the George W. Barlow entomology collection, and Pedro Ramirez, Award from the Animal Research Assistant at the Concord Field Behavior Society for the top- Station, were each honored by Harvard for ranked research proposal 25 years of service to the University. to encourage excellence in graduate student research in Congratulations to Alison Pirie, Faculty the field of animal behavior. & Collections Assistant in Mammalogy and Ornithology, on her retirement after Christopher Laumer received nearly 38 years of service to the MCZ. We an NSF Doctoral Dissertation thank her for her unwavering positive Improvement Grant for

attitude and dedication to the MCZ and Melissa Aja his project titled “Scalable wish her the best! Hillary Maddin phylogenomics at the species level: a novel target-

National Geographic Marie Studer, EOL Learning + Education Hillary Maddin was awarded Canada’s gene approach to tracing © Director, and Linda S. Ford, Director of Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. The the global diversification Collections Operations, were recognized fellowship provides funding to the very best of prorhynchid flatworms with Impact Awards for their sustained, postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and (Platyhelminthes).” superior performance and exceptional Mike Busada internationally, who will positively contribute effectiveness in the Faculty of Arts and Zachary Lewis received the Edward O. Wilson with paleontologist to the country’s economic, social and Sciences. Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Louise Leakey Emeritus research-based growth.

Research for his proposal Kate Eldridge Edward O. Wilson was one of three Ian Wang received a 2013 Jasper Loftus- titled “The developmental recipients of the 2013 Hubbard Medal Scott Edwards and Alison Pirie Hills Young Investigators’ Award from the genetic basis of lung loss in from the National Geographic Society. American Society of Naturalists. The award lungless salamanders.” Lewis The medal, which recognizes distinction in recognizes outstanding and promising also claimed first prize in exploration, discovery and research, is the work by investigators early in their the campus photography Society’s oldest and most prestigious award. postdoctoral career. competition Glimpse into Life Science: Scientific Artwork by Faculty Graduate Students Harvard Graduate Students, Scott Edwards will serve a two-year term as hosted by the Harvard the Director of the Division of Biological Integrated Life Sciences. Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation. DBI empowers biological Martha Muñoz is the recipient discovery by supporting the development of a John Parker Merit and enhancement of biological resources, Fellowship and a Graduate human capital and centers. Student Council Conference Grant, both from Harvard. She Hopi Hoekstra has been selected as Victoria Wilke also received a Broadening a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Linda Ford Participation Award from the Investigator, beginning in the fall of Society for Integrative and 2013. The appointment provides the Catherine Weisel, Museum Project Comparative Biology. flexible support necessary to move Coordinator, received a Dean’s Distinction an investigator’s research in creative Yunke Wu received a Award, which recognizes outstanding new directions. Prof. Hoekstra is postdoctoral fellowship citizenship and exceptional contributions also the recipient of the 2013 Estela Christopher Laumer from the United States in support of the Faculty of Arts and Medrano Award from the Pan Department of Agriculture. Sciences’ mission. American Society for Pigment Cell Shane Campbell-Staton received an NSF Wu will be continuing Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Research, which recognizes a young Postdoctoral Fellows his research at Cornell scientist “that has made, or has the for his project titled, “Temperature- University. Rowan Barrett was the recipient of the 2013 potential to make, transformative dependent phylogeography and limits of Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize in recognition contributions that span traditional thermal tolerance in Anolis carolinensis.” of his accomplishments and future promise of discipline boundaries relevant to an outstanding young evolutionary biologist. Emily Jacobs-Palmer won the Hamilton pigment cell biology.” In January, she The award is given by the Society for the Prize for best student presentation at the Gretchen Ertl

was featured in The New York Times Shea Lambert Study of Evolution. 2013 Evolution Meetings for her work on the “Profiles in Science.” Hopi Hoekstra genetics of sperm morphology in deer mice. Martha Muñoz 28 Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report 2012–2013 29 MCZ Personnel

Faculty-Curators Postdoctoral Fellows, Matthew Lim Rebecca Buckman Financial Data Andrew A. Biewener Research Associates Entomology, Pierce Lab Invertebrate Zoology, Giribet Lab Charles P. Lyman Professor of Biology; & Visiting Scholars Mark Liu Shane Campbell-Staton Director, Concord Field Station Sonia Da Silva Andrade Ornithology, Edwards Lab Ornithology, Edwards Lab Invertebrate Zoology, Giribet Lab These charts describe the income and expenses of the Museum of Comparative Zoology in fiscal year 2013. Scott V. Edwards David Lubertazzi Glenna Clifton Professor of Organismic and Allison Arnold-Rife Global Ant Project, Wilson Lab Concord Field Station, Biewener Lab Evolutionary Biology; Alexander Concord Field Station, Biewener Lab Mark Cornwall Endowment income funds much of the Museum’s activities, projects. It is shown as both income (Overhead Earned) Agassiz Professor of Zoology; Curator Hillary Maddin of Ornithology Niclas Backström Herpetology, Hanken Lab Entomology, Pierce Lab including acquisition and maintenance of collections, and expenses (Overhead Charged). Special Project–NW Ornithology, Edwards Lab Brian D. Farrell Ricardo Mallarino Amanda Evans most faculty and staff salaries, capital projects, facilities Collections includes deployment of collections to the newly Professor of Biology; Curator of Rowan D. H. Barrett Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Entomology, Farrell Lab Entomology Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab renovation and maintenance. Included in Endowment constructed space in the Northwest Building. Building Marie M. Manceau Kara Feilich Gonzalo Giribet Andres Bendesky Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Ichthyology, Lauder Lab income is the annual distribution, revenue generated expenses such as maintenance, facility improvements and Professor of Biology; Alexander Agassiz Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Kadeem Gilbert Gabriel Miller Professor of Zoology; Curator of Ornithology & Herpetology, Edwards from assets purchased through endowments and endowed utilities are captured in the Space & Occupancy category. Gilberto Neves Bento Entomology, Pierce Lab Invertebrate Zoology & Losos Labs Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab funds decapitalized per donor request. Transfers include Operating Expenses consist of equipment purchases, Gerard Talavera Mor James Hanken Vanessa Gonzalez María del Rosario Castañeda Entomology, Pierce Lab Harvard University-funded faculty research, financial supplies, consultant and conference fees, as well as Professor of Biology; Alexander Agassiz Invertebrate Zoology, Giribet Lab Herpetology, Losos Lab support for the Ernst Mayr Library and other Harvard- annual subventions to the Department of Organismic and Professor of Zoology; Curator of Mary O’Connell Herpetology; Director, MCZ Patrick Gorring Celine Clabaut Ornithology, Edwards Lab Entomology, Farrell Lab funded projects. Other Income comprises miscellaneous Evolutionary Biology (OEB) for administrative services. Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Hopi E. Hoekstra Brant Peterson income from publication subscriptions, royalties, sales and Support for MCZ-affiliated graduate students in OEB is Professor of Biology; Professor of Alexis Harrison Savel Daniels Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Herpetology, Losos Lab fees, and other cost recovery from other MCZ-sponsored included in Scholarships, Awards & Travel. Institutional Molecular and Cellular Biology; Invertebrate Zoology, Giribet Lab Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology; Nadine Piekarski Michael Brent Hawkins activities. Reserves represent the amount of carry-forward Expenses are support for other University activities outside Curator of Mammalogy Vera Domingues Herpetology, Hanken Lab Herpetology, Hanken Lab Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab balances used to cover an operating deficit. Overhead is the MCZ, including FAS and University initiatives, the Farish A. Jenkins, Jr. Yu-Ping Poh Emily Jacobs-Palmer Professor of Biology; Alexander Agassiz Rodney Eastwood Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab funding paid from MCZ-based sponsored projects to the Harvard College Library, and general operating support to Professor of Zoology; Curator of Entomology, Pierce Lab Christian Rabeling Zofia Kaliszewska Vertebrate Paleontology MCZ to cover facilities and administrative costs for those the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Marianne Espeland Entomology, Pierce Lab Entomology, Pierce Lab George V. Lauder Entomology, Pierce Lab Frank Rheindt Ambika Kamath Professor of Biology; Henry Bryant Rosa Maria Fernandez Garcia Ornithology, Edwards Lab Herpetology, Losos Lab Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology; Invertebrate Zoology, Giribet Lab Income Expenses Curator of Ichthyology Thomas Sanger Emily Kay Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Jonathan B. Losos Heidi Fisher Herpetology, Losos Lab Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Gifts 1% Special Project−NW Collections 11% Scholarships, Monique and Philip Lehner Professor Lori Shapiro Evan Kingsley Transfers 2% Overhead Earned 3% Capitalized Awards & for the Study of Latin America; Brooke Flammang Entomology, Pierce Lab Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Balances <1% Curator of Herpetology Ichthyology, Lauder Lab Space & Occupancy 9% Travel 2% Emma Sherratt Christopher Laumer Other Income 1% Reserves 14% James J. McCarthy Adam Freedman Herpetology, Losos Lab Invertebrate Zoology, Giribet Lab Professor of Biological Oceanography; Herpetology & Mammalogy, Losos & Zachary Lewis Federal Operating Institutional Alexander Agassiz Professor of Flavia Termignoni Hoekstra Labs Herpetology, Hanken Lab Sponsored Expenses Expenses Biological Oceanography; Acting Ornithology, Edwards Lab Revenue 20% 13% Matthew Fujita Curator of Malacology Anu Veijalainen Jeanette Lim 10% Ornithology, Edwards Lab Ichthyology, Lauder Lab Naomi E. Pierce Entomology, Farrell Lab Gabriel Gartner Sidney A. and John H. Hessel Professor Ian Wang Hillery Metz Herpetology, Losos Lab of Biology; Curator of Entomology Herpetology, Losos Lab Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Robert M. Woollacott Masaru Hojo Talia Moore Li Wen Professor of Biology; Curator of Marine Entomology, Pierce Lab Herpetology & Concord Field Station, Ichthyology, Lauder Lab Endowment 67% Nonfederal Sponsored Revenue 2% Salaries & Fringe Benefits 41% Overhead Charged 3% Invertebrates Losos & Biewener Labs Natalie Holt Charles D. Williams Concord Field Station, Biewener Lab Martha Muñoz Emeritus Faculty Concord Field Station, Biewener Lab Herpetology, Losos Lab Kenneth J. Boss Travis Ingram Alexander Ziegler Ivo Ros Income Expenses Faculty-Curator, Emeritus; Herpetology, Losos Lab Invertebrate Zoology, Giribet Lab Concord Field Station, Biewener Lab Endowment $13,838,180 Salaries & Fringe Benefits $8,487,000 Professor of Biology, Emeritus Milan Janda Elizabeth Sefton A.W. “Fuzz” Crompton Entomology, Pierce Lab Graduate Students Reserves $2,877,361 Operating Expenses $4,102,685 Herpetology, Hanken Lab Faculty-Curator, Emeritus; Fisher Christopher Kenaley Christopher Baker Federal Sponsored Revenue $1,941,582 Institutional Expenses $2,712,515 Professor of Natural History, Emeritus Ichthyology, Lauder Lab Entomology, Pierce Lab Allison Shultz Overhead Earned $663,289 Special Project–NW Collections $2,228,675 Ornithology, Edwards Lab Herbert W. Levi Julia Klaczko Maude Baldwin Nonfederal Sponsored Revenue $464,415 Space & Occupancy $1,902,236 Faculty-Curator, Emeritus; Alexander Herpetology, Losos Lab Ornithology, Edwards Lab Bruno Souza de Medeiros Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus Entomology, Farrell Lab Transfers $441,937 Overhead Charged (Sponsored) $663,289 Sarah Kocher Nicole Bedford Richard C. Lewontin Entomology, Pierce Lab Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Yoel Stuart Gifts $181,900 Scholarships, Awards & Travel $419,276 Professor of Biology, Emeritus; Herpetology, Losos Lab Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Sebastian Kvist Leonora Bittleston Other Income $121,662 Capitalized Balances $14,650 Wenfei Tong Emeritus Invertebrate Zoology, Giribet Lab Entomology, Pierce Lab Total $20,530,326 Total $20,530,326 Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Edward O. Wilson Katherine Boronow Jean-Marc Lassance Kira Treibergs Honorary Curator in Entomology; Herpetology, Losos Lab Mammalogy, Hoekstra Lab Marine Invertebrates, Woollacott Lab Pellegrino University Professor, John Boyle Emeritus Sarah Lemer Entomology, Pierce Lab Yunke Wu Invertebrate Zoology, Giribet Lab Herpetology, Hanken Lab

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Xuemai Zhai Anthony Herrel Michael Rex Emily Braker Joseph Martinez Diana Tingley Turmenne Irv Dumay Biological Oceanography, Associate of Herpetology Associate of Malacology Curatorial Assistant, Collections Curatorial Assistant, Herpetology Curatorial Assistant, Collections Building Manager University of Massachusetts, Boston Operations Operations McCarthy Lab Muséum National d’Histoire Juri Miyamae Paul Dwyer Naturelle, Paris Jury Rudyakov Constance Brichford Curatorial Assistant, Collections Jeremiah Trimble Mailroom Staff Assistant Associates Associate of Invertebrate Zoology Curatorial Assistant, Collections Operations Curatorial Associate, Ornithology Berthold Holldobler Jeannette Everritt Gary Alpert Commonwealth of Massachusetts Operations Associate of Entomology Richard Monk Catherine Weisel Administrative Coordinator Associate of Entomology Arizona State University Jessica Rykken Ronnie Broadfoot Database Programmer/Consutant, Museum Projects Coordinator Harvard University Jason Green Associate of Entomology Circulation/Reference, Ernst Mayr Collections Operations Gustavo Hormiga Ken Wilcox Accounting Assistant Bruce Archibald Harvard University Library Associate of Invertebrate Zoology Paul Morris Building Superintendent, Concord Associate of Entomology Philip Norton George Washington University Chris Schneider Christopher Carden Biodiversity Informatics Manager Field Station Simon Fraser University Assistant Building Manager Associate of Herpetology Cataloger, Biodiversity Heritage Alan Kabat Robert Morris Victoria Wilke Aaron Bauer Boston University Library Monica Oyama Associate of Malacology IT Specialist/Consultant, Biodiversity Curatorial Assistant, Collections Associate of Herpetology Accounting Assistant Attorney, Bernabei & Wachtel Andrea Sequeira Judith Chupasko Informatics Operations Villanova University Associate of Entomology Curatorial Associate, Mammalogy Kristin Pennarun Leslie S. Kaufman April Mullins Andrew Williston Reinier Beeuwkes, III Wellesley College Senior Research Administrator Associate of Ichthyology Stefan Cover Acquisitions & Technology Specialist, Curatorial Assistant, Ichthyology Associate of Zoology Boston University Scott R. Shaw Curatorial Assistant, Entomology Ernst Mayr Library Christopher Preheim Ischemix Company Jonathan Woodward Associate of Entomology Coordinator of Academic Programs Timothy Laman Jessica Cundiff Catherine Musinsky Curatorial Assistant, Herpetology & Andrew Berry University of Wyoming Associate of Ornithology Curatorial Associate, Invertebrate & Faculty/Collection Assistant, Collections Operations Damari Rosado Associate of Population Genetics National Geographic Joel Sohn Vertebrate Paleontology Mammalogy Associate Director of Administration Harvard University Robert Young Associate of Ichthyology Ruth Hortencia Bastardo Landrau Joseph DeVeer John Nevins Special Collections Librarian, Anna Salvato Elizabeth Brainerd Golden Mountain Trading Company Associate of Entomology Head of Technical Services, Laboratory Systems Manager for Ernst Mayr Library Manager of Financial Operations Associate of Ichthyology Universidad Autónoma de Santo Stephen Tilley Ernst Mayr Library Biological Oceanography & Marine Brown University Breda Zimkus Deborah Smiley Domingo Associate of Herpetology Biology Katherine Eldridge Project Manager for Genetic Resources Web Project Manager Jae Choe Smith College Joanna Larson Curatorial Assistant, Ornithology Somer O’Brien Associate of Entomology Geoff Tierney Associate of Herpetology James Traniello Staff Assistant, Concord Field Station Ewha Womans University Anne Everly Temporary Staff Associate Director of Finance & Harvard University Associate of Entomology Lab Manager, Herpetology Mark Omura Sarah Cohen Research Administration Janet Collett Boston University Phillip Lobel Curatorial Assistant, Mammalogy Malacology Associate of Population Genetics Charles Farnum Laura Tomaino Associate of Ichthyology David Wagner University of Sussex Curatorial Assistant, Entomology Philip Perkins Ann Downer-Hazell Human Resources Coordinator Boston University Associate of Entomology Curatorial Associate, Entomology EOL Learning + Education Bruce Collette David Lohman University of Connecticut Helene Ferranti Group Associate of Ichthyology Associate of Entomology Faculty/Collection Assistant, Alison Pirie The MCZ deeply appreciates the additional support and David Wake Gwendolyn Fougy Henry National Marine Fisheries Service Biological Oceanography & Marine Faculty/Collection Assistant, The City College of New York Associate of Herpetology contributions of numerous interns and undergraduate students Biology Ornithology & Mammalogy Ernst Mayr Library David Bruce Conn University of California, Berkeley Vladimir A. Lukhtanov Jyhjong Hwang during the 2012–2013 academic year. Associate of Invertebrate Zoology Dana Fisher Bridget Power Associate of Entomology Marvalee Wake Collections Operations Berry College Assistant to the Librarian/Special Faculty/Collection Assistant, Russian Academy of Sciences Associate of Herpetology Collections, Ernst Mayr Library Invertebrate & Vertebrate Paleontology Richard Knecht James Costa Duane McKenna University of California, Berkeley Invertebrate & Vertebrate Paleontology Associate of Entomology Linda S. Ford Jignasha Rana MCZ Faculty Associate of Entomology Philip S. Ward Western Carolina University University of Memphis Director, Collections Operations Research Assistant, Entomology Jessica Mitchell The MCZ’s charter, signed in 1859, mandates that the Associate of Entomology Ernst Mayr Library Catherine Craig Russell Mittermeier University of California, Davis Brendan Haley Murat Recevik Museum’s activities will be overseen by a governing board, Associate of Invertebrate Zoology Senior Database Manager Curatorial Assistant, Malacology Valerie Root the Faculty of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Associate of Herpetology Jacqueline Webb Harvard University Ernst Mayr Library Conservation International Associate of Ichthyology Karsten Hartel Mark Renczkowski Dr. John D. Constable University of Rhode Island Curatorial Associate, Ichthyology Curatorial Assistant, Invertebrate Kaitlin Sheridan Harlan Dean William Montevecchi Mr. Robert G. Goelet Associate of Invertebrate Zoology Paleontology Invertebrate Zoology Associate of Ornithology R. Haven Wiley Rachel Hawkins Harvard University Mr. George Putnam, Jr. Memorial University of Newfoundland Associate of Ornithology Curatorial Assistant, Entomology Constance Rinaldo Robert Stymeist Lloyd Demetrius University of North Carolina Librarian, Ernst Mayr Library Ornithology Mr. George Putnam, III Piotr Naskrecki Kathleen Horton Associate of Population Genetics Tatiana De Souza Vargas Associate of Entomology Cheryl Wilga Faculty/Collection Assistant, Alana Rivera Dr. Barbara Jil Wu Harvard University Conservation International Collections Operations Associate of Ichthyology Entomology Curatorial Assistant, Collections Mr. Paul J. Zofnass Philip DeVries University of Rhode Island Operations Martin Nweeia Amie Jones Associate of Entomology Encyclopedia of President Drew Gilpin Faust Associate of Mammalogy Judith Winston Faculty/Collection Assistant, José Rosado University of New Orleans Harvard School of Dental Medicine Life, Learning + Associate of Marine Biology Entomology Curatorial Associate, Herpetology Education Group Gregory D. Edgecombe Virginia Museum of Natural History Diane B. Paul Maureen Kelly Mary Sears Associate of Invertebrate Zoology Tracy Barbaro Associate of Population Genetics Project Programmer, Biodiversity Head of Public Services, Ernst Mayr Natural History Museum, England Project Coordinator Harvard University Staff Informatics Library Acknowledgements Ben Evans Melissa Aja Jeffrey T. Holmes David L. Pawson Laura Leibensperger Diane Sheridan This annual report was produced by the Office of the Director Associate of Herpetology Faculty/Collection Assistant, Digital Learning Editor Associate of Marine Biology Curatorial Assistant, Invertebrate Faculty/Collection Assistant, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. McMaster University Herpetology Smithsonian National Museum of Zoology Invertebrate Zoology Marie M. Studer Richard Glor Natural History Adam Baldinger Learning + Education Director Editors Jennifer Lenihan Margaret Starvish Associate of Herpetology Curatorial Associate, Invertebrate Stewart Peck Curatorial Assistant, Invertebrate Faculty/Collection Assistant, James Hanken, Director University of Kansas Zoology, Malacology & Marine Administration for the Associate of Entomology Zoology Ichthyology Carleton University Invertebrates Department of Organismic Catherine Weisel, Museum Projects Coordinator Kelvin A. Guerrero Tsuyoshi Takahashi Dorothy Barr Lisa Litchfield & Evolutionary Biology Associate of Entomology Paulo Petry Curatorial Assistant, Herpetology & Copy, Design & Production Public Services/MCB Liaison Administrator, Concord Field Station Krista Carmichael Systematic Entomologist/ Associate of Ichthyology Collections Operations Environmental Consultant The Nature Conservancy Librarian, Ernst Mayr Library David Lowery Senior Research Administrator Cyndi Wood Jennifer Thomson Creative Project Management, Inc. Penny Benson Project Programmer, Biodiversity Rebecca Chetham Michael Hadfield Steve Poe Faculty/Collection Assistant, Curatorial Assistant, Malacology Informatics Executive Director www.creativeprojectmgmt.com Associate of Marine Biology Associate of Herpetology Populations Genetics Kewalo Marine Laboratory University of New Mexico

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