Professor Karen Crawford of the biology department will have a paper she co-authored during her sabbatical published in the March 2014 issue of Nature Protocols and was awarded the publication’s cover shot. Her paper “Optimized Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) Husbandry, Breeding, Metamorphosis, Transgenesis and Tamoxifen-mediated Recombination” studies axolotl husbandry, metamorphosis and transgenesis.