Gaga fern illustrations
- Title:
- Gaga fern illustrations
- Description:
- In 2012, biology researchers from Duke’s Pryer & Windham Labs made headlines when they discovered a new genus of ferns—and named it after Lady Gaga. The ferns’ gametophytes resemble a costume Lady Gaga wore to the 2010 Grammy Awards, and their DNA sequences also spell out G-A-G-A. Professor Kathleen Pryer, the leader of the study and the director of the Duke Herbarium, explained that "[w]e wanted to name this genus for Lady Gaga because of her fervent defense of equality and individual expression.”
- Date:
- 2012
- Rights:
Some Rights Reserved- Citation:
- Li, F.-W., K.M. Pryer, and M.D. Windham. 2012. Gaga, a new fern genus segregated from Cheilanthes (Pteridaceae). Systematic Botany 37: 845-860.
