Woodrats survive on toxic creosote plants by copying detox genes, producing more enzymes to break down plant toxins and avoid ...

"These woodrats have only been exposed to creosote bush for about 15,000 years—in an evolutionary timescale, that's very little time," said Dylan Klure, postdoctoral researcher at the U and lead ...

HABITAT: The beetles require areas of fine sand and creosote bush scrub as well as areas of active and partially stabilized dunes with widely scattered perennial vegetation cover. In particular, they ...

Rob is an evolutionary ecologist who studies polyploidy and speciation in the creosote bush. Here at CU, he continued his creosote research and collaborated with Nolan Kane to develop genomic tools ...