Principal Investigator:LePage, Ben A. Licensed Year(s):
1994
Summary:
The researcher will begin a preliminary paleontological investigation of Permain age (about 250 million years old) sediments of the Sabine Bay Formation and the fossil plants contained within these deposits. The plants recovered will be identified and compared to Permain floras from Russia, Greenland, and Europe. Localities yielding interesting or well-preserved specimens will provide a basis for...
Principal Investigator:LePage, Ben A. Licensed Year(s):
1992
1991 Summary:
The research will compare genes isolated from fossil trees with homologous contemporary genes to evaluated rates of evolution and reconstruct phylogenies....