UMMZ doctoral student, Jeff Shi, recently received the Karl F. Koopman Prize from the North American Society for Bat Research. Shi presented “Speciation and skull morphological evolution are decoupled across extant bats”. Shi and Michigan undergraduate, Nathan Katlein, have been utilizing bat specimens from the UMMZ Mammal Division in their research.
Shi wins N. American Society for Bat Research’s Koopman Prize
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