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A to D

ALIENinSoil: Sequencing soil microorganisms

AMISTAD: Advanced Museomics Integrating Systematics and Taxonomy to Accelerate Discovery, in Neotropical Butterflies

Amphibian disease and conservation

Antarctic marine biodiversity and climate change

Art and science at the Museum

Atomic-scale phenomena

Bio+Mine: Biodiversity positive mining for the net zero challenge

Biodiversity in deep-sea mining exploration areas

Body size variation in Quaternary mammals

Brazilian mangrove forests

Breaking the taxonomic barrier

Brilliant butterflies

British bryozoans

Bryozoan endoparasite evolution

Bryozoan skeletal mineralogy and ocean acidification

Bryozoans and environment

Bumblebee specialist group

Centipede systematics

CERCAMS: Centre for Russian and Central EurAsian Mineral Studies

Cetacean (Re)Sources: Reconnecting cetacean specimens with the legacies of empire and whaling

Chironomids as environmental indicators

Ciliate taxonomy and diversity

Coevolution of plants and soils

CoG3 Consortium: investigating the recovery of cobalt

Commercial bumblebee research

Comparative venomics

Conodont research

Conulariid research

Convergent evolution of anguilliform elongation

Copepod colonisation and parasitism

Critical elements research

Cryptic diversity in green lacewings

CT scanning of blowfly pupae

Curious Travellers

Cutmarks and carcass decay

Darwin Tree of Life project

DEEPEND: Deep-ocean resources and biodiscovery

Deep Sea ID: an app from the World Register of Deep-Sea Species

Deep-sea research group

Developmental genetics, genomes and evolution of helminth parasites

Diatom research

Dinosaur and plant coevolution

Dispersal and diversification in freshwater environments

DTRA-NK: Emerging public health threats in Africa's drylands

Dwarfing of fossil mammals on Mediterranean islands

E to L

Echinoderm research

Ecosystem response to environmental change

Emerging diseases

Environmental change in UK freshwater systems

European Space Agency: exploration sample analogue collection and curation facility

Evolution and development of vertebrate structures

Evolution and taxonomy of African elephants

Evolution and taxonomy of Asian elephants

Evolution and taxonomy of Ice Age deer

Evolution and taxonomy of Mesozoic bryozoans

Evolution of animals at deep-sea hot springs

Evolution of colour and vision in marine invertebrates

Evolution of fern diversity

Evolution of the snake visual system

Evolutionary convergence in Solanaceae

Evolutionary significance of a new UK Middle Jurassic Largerstätte

EXCALIBUR: soil biodiversity in horticulture

Explorers programme

Extinction of large mammals in the Late Quaternary Ice Age

Extraterrestrial H2O hunters

FAME and fortune

FAMOS: From arc magmas to ores

Freshwater and coastal lichens

Fyke net trials

Global seaweed network

Human adaptation to diet and infectious disease

Human impacts on biodiversity

Hydro-Mars project

Invasive crab sightings

Investigating plant diseases impacting chayote farming in the Philippines

Jadar Li-B deposit, Serbia

LEARN CitSci project

Li4UK: securing a domestic lithium supply chain for the UK

Lichens in forested ecosystems

LiFT: Lithium for Future Technology

LODE: London Centre for Ore Deposits and Exploration

M to R

Mammoth evolution as a model for species origins

Manual of afrotropical diptera

Mesozoic forests of Britain

Micrometeorites to explore atmospheric composition and climate change through geological time

Micropalaeontology research opportunities

Midge thermometer

Mineral sciences

Mining a sustainable future

(Mis)Conceptions: A Cultural History of Pregnancy Indeterminacy

Mission Jurassic excavation

Molluscan deep-sea diversity

Naked snakes of the North Eastern Region of India

Neglected tropical diseases

Noctuoidea phylogenetics

Oceanoma: The ocean taxonomy project

Origins of marine biodiversity

Ostracod research

Passerine bird evolution and biogeography

Pathways to Ancient Britain

Pathways to Ancient Britain: emerging Neanderthals

Pathways to Ancient Britain: pioneering populations

Pathways to Ancient Britain: successful colonisers

PETM: Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Phylogenetic comparative methods

Planktonic foraminifera

Plant diversity of the Macaronesian region

Plants under pressure

Plastic in the Thames

Poll-A-Gen: A century of genome diversity in UK insect pollinators

Popocatépetl volcano, Mexico

Reading the rocks

Red algal systematics

Reef corals and coral reefs

Re-examining a major deep-sea fish collection

Research using the cetacean collections

RESIST: Resistance Evaluation and Surveillance Initiative for Schistosomiasis Treatment

REX: the remotely operated vehicle for education and exploration

Role of behaviour in evolution

S to Z

Saving species experts from extinction

Scandium in geological systems

Scanning for disease

SCAPES: Scaling Lassa virus dynamics within anthropogenic ecosystems in Nigeria

Schistosome Snail Resource (SSR)

Schistosomiasis collection (SCAN)

Schistosomiasis research group

Sea lice in aquaculture

SENZOR: A social-ecological network approach to understanding zoonotic outbreak risk

Serra Verde lateritic REE deposit

Shrimp taxonomy

Site-based integrative analysis of biodiversity in tropical rainforests

Size matters: responding to environmental change

Sphingidae research

Stromboli volcano, Italy

Systematics and ecology of deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems

Taxonomic monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera

Trilobite research

UK seaweed biodiversity and conservation

Unlocking the vault: UK plant collections

Urticaceae systematics

Warmr: AI in ecology and epidemiology

Whitefly database

World register of marine species

Wellcome SHD: Mathematical modelling and data analysis of animal disease

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