By Matt Vines October 06, 2026 SHREVEPORT – An LSU Shreveport herpetologist is part of ground-breaking research in the gecko world. Dr. Stuart Nielsen, assistant professor of biology, was part of a team that established nearly 20 new genomes for geckos, publishing the research in the journal “Science.” A genome is an organism’s complete set of genetic instructions, made up of all the DNA stored in its cells. “We published new genomes for geckos spanning essentially the gecko