Jellyfish eyes will enable researchers to peer into inner workings of evolution
A team of researchers that includes Paulyn Cartwright, professor of ecology & evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas; Maria Pia Miglietta of Texas A&M University, Galveston; and lead principal investigator Todd Oakley of the University of California, Santa Barbara, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how jellyfish-eye “convergence” — duplicated events in the history of life — provides a window on how evolution works at genetic, cellular and morphologic levels.The KU portion of the NSF grant totals $494,890.