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Researchers Seek to Solve Decades-Long Baja California Peninsula Mystery
The University of Arizona is among a group of institutions who are using a $2.6 million grant to study how geologic activity, rainfall patterns and climate cycles might have shaped the evolution and biodiversity of the Baja California peninsula over time.
By Mikayla Mace, University CommunicationsJan. 29, 2020
ASU researchers seek to solve decades-long Baja California peninsula mystery
There's something weird going on inside the plants and animals that call the Baja California peninsula home. On the surface, everything looks as expected, but close genetic inspection of many individuals reveals a genomically distinct split between the northern and southern populations of dozens of species.
By Sandra Leander, ASU Knowledge Enterprise, February 3, 2020