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Focus[0] = "Ward_210_2.jpg | Blaschka Glass Ivertebrate | 525 | 400 | Sea Creatures in Glass | Many years before they were commissioned by Harvard University to make the \"Glass Flowers,\" father and son artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka meticulously shaped glass and wire into lifelike models of invertebrate animals. <\/p> <p> From the Blaschka Glass Invertebrate collection at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, a selection of models of marine invertebrates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmnh.harvard.edu\/special_exhibits\/index.php\">are currently on exhibit<\/a> in the Harvard Museum of Natural History."
Focus[1] = "MCZ-Pub-Fan.jpg | MCZ Publications | 525 | 400 | MCZ Publications Now Available via BHL | Past issues of MCZ’s publications&#45;Breviora, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology&#45;are available online from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\">BHL<\/a>).<br\/><br\/>The BHL’s goal is to scan and digitize the published literature of biodiversity and make it available through a global \“biodiversity commons.\”  The MCZ’s Ernst Mayr Library is one of ten participating institutions."
Focus[2] = "EOL_MCZ_Version1_071108.jpg | Encyclopedia of Life | 525 | 400 | Encyclopedia of Life at the MCZ | Harvard University is one of the Encyclopedia of Life's (<a href=\"/about/initiatives.html\">EOL<\/a>)  five cornerstone institutions.  Harvard's MCZ hosts the Education &amp; Outreach component, which is developing EOL as a resource for public audiences, from school children to citizen scientists. The EOL is a constantly evolving, online encyclopedia that will offer scientifically verified, multimedia web pages for all 1.8 million known species of Earth's living organisms."
Focus[3] = "Hoekstra_MCZ.jpg | Hopi Hoekstra | 525 | 252 | MCZ Fieldwork: Color variation in mice | Hopi E. Hoekstra, MCZ's Curator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcz.harvard.edu\/Departments\/Mammalogy\/index.html\">Mammalogy<\/a> and John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Biology, combines field and laboratory work to understand the evolution of mammalian diversity from morphology to behavior. The Hoekstra Lab’s research on adaptation and color variation of field mice was featured in the September 2009 issue of <i>Science</i>. Photos: (left) Lynn Johnson, (right) Emily Kay"
Focus[4] = "MCZ-1004.jpg | Insects | 525 | 312 | Evolutionary research on exhibit  | The research of MCZ faculty-curators (and other Harvard faculty) and the MCZ’s collections are featured in a new permanent exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.  \"Evolution\" addresses several major topics, including variation, natural selection, adaptive radiation, and convergent evolution. The diversity of beetles is exhibited in this \"trophic pyramid\" conceived by Brian D. Farrell, Curator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcz.harvard.edu\/Departments\/Entomology\/index.html\">Entomology</a> and Professor of Biology. Photo: Cyndi Wood"
Focus[5] = "giribet_manta.jpg | Gonzalo Giribet and giant manta ray | 525 | 304 | MCZ Fieldwork: Underwater | Gonzalo Giribet, MCZ's Curator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcz.harvard.edu\/Departments\/InvertZoo\/index.html\">Invertebrate Zoology</a> and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, has a close encounter with a giant manta ray while diving off of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.  Gonzalo and students were conducting fieldwork to collect marine mollusks for his NSF-sponsored Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) grant. Photo: Claudia Arango."
Focus[6] = "AnolisJonathanLosos-31.jpg | Anolis lizard | 525 | 355 | Colorful MCZ Specimens in HMNH Exhibit | \"The Language of Color\" is on display at the HMNH.  The exhibit features MCZ specimens that highlight the many ways in which animals use color and encourages visitors to think about the role that color has played in evolution.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2008\/11\/animals-speak-color.html\">Harvard Magazine<\/a> story includes a video tour of the exhibit with MCZ Curator Hopi Hoekstra."




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