LSUS Faculty Co-Authors Research That Reclassifies World's Largest Known Gecko
August 11, 2023
August 11, 2023
SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Aug. 11 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University Shreveport campus issued the following news:
The world's largest known gecko will have a new name thanks to research conducted by a group of herpetologists, which included LSUS faculty member Dr. Stuart Nielsen.
Nielsen co-authored a study in which DNA was extracted from a 200-year-old museum specimen, the only existing example of Hoplodactylus delcourti, which is approximately 50 percent longer . . .
The world's largest known gecko will have a new name thanks to research conducted by a group of herpetologists, which included LSUS faculty member Dr. Stuart Nielsen.
Nielsen co-authored a study in which DNA was extracted from a 200-year-old museum specimen, the only existing example of Hoplodactylus delcourti, which is approximately 50 percent longer . . .