Bowling Green, Ky. - Three Western Kentucky University students made presentations on their butterfly molecular biology projects at the 57th annual meeting of the Lepidopterists’ Society in Gainesville, Fla.

Undergraduates Timothy Shehan of Bloomfield and Tara Powell of Guthrie and graduate student Tia Hughes of Bowling Green attended the June 14-18 meeting with their mentor, Dr. Jeffrey Marcus, assistant professor of biology.

Shehan gave a talk titled “Applications of AFLP-based DNA fingerprinting to the study of the Lepidoptera.” Powell gave a talk titled “Molecular Forensics in Butterflies: The Origins of Basilarchia form ‘rubidus’ in Kentucky.” Hughes gave a talk titled “Molecular phylogenetics and the evolution of mimicry in the butterfly genus Basilarchia.” Marcus gave a talk titled “Population structure of the genus Junonia in Florida.”

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For information, contact Dr. Jeffrey Marcus at (270) 745-2043.

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