Mike Robison, graduate student in the Schmidt lab, is now one of the world's experts on one of the most ubiquitous groups of soil and aquatic eukaryotes! Their paper, entitled "Soil rotifer communities are extremely diverse globally but spatially autocorrelated locally" has just appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To see the abstract, go to:
www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/02/16/1012678108.abstract has just appeared in PNAS.
