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Researcher in chemical ecology of plant-insect interactions @cefemontpellier @cnrs

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European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · 30/09/2026
Half of Europe's population was exposed to poor or worse ground-level ozone levels so far in 2026, as successive summer heatwaves drove up concentrations, according to new @CopernicusECMWF analysis. 🔗 atmosphere.copernicus.eu/air-quality/... #AirQuality #Ozone
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UMR AMAP @umramap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to @arteanest.bsky.social for her New Phytologist Prize in Plant Biology for the Best Oral Presentation at the 2026 ATBC Annual Meeting in Xishuangbanna, China. @umontpellier.bsky.social
https://tropicalbiology.org/blog/2026/08/30/atbc-2026-best-presentation-award-winners/
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎉🆕📰🎉: Warming effects on floral volatile organic compounds and plant–pollinator interactions in tropical ecosystems doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Warming effects on floral volatile organic compounds and plant–pollinator interactions in tropical ecosystems
Abstract. Climate warming increasingly disrupts plant–pollinator interactions through changes in floral chemical cues, particularly volatile organic compou
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Olivier Gimenez 🦦 @oaggimenez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Sur la piste des loutres : une enquête scientifique au fil du Lez - https://echappeesinattendues.cnrs.fr
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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fake figs, fooled fig wasps & rewarded flies: this plant has one of the strangest #pollination systems yet found in #Apocynaceae. I’ve written about the new study and how it fits into our wider work on this extraordinary plant family. Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/09/18/f... #Biodiversity
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Fake figs, fooled wasps, and another extraordinary Apocynaceae pollination system
One of the things I love about working on the milkweed and dogbane family (Apocynaceae) is that it has an apparently inexhaustible capacity to produce strange and wonderful interactions with animal…
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) Fake figs, fooled fig wasps and rewarded phorid flies: brood-site mimicry and mutualism in Heterostemma ficoides (Apocynaceae) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fig. 1 Overall appearance of Heterostemma ficoides (a–d) and Ficus heterophylla (e–h). (a) Branch with inflorescences in leaf axils.
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴
Flyer for the BIODIFUL Soundscapes survey. Text reads: 'Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica? Please answer our online questionnaire: Voices of the Tropical Forest.' Photo of a lush tropical forest interior, overlaid with a translucent ear icon surrounded by sound waves. Text continues: 'This anonymous survey will take only 10 min. https://www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en.' Logos at the bottom: BIODIFUL, ETH Zürich, CNRS, and Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale
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International Society of Chemical Ecology @chemicalecology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Happening now! ISCE Silver Medal Award Plenary: “A Historical Review of Floral Scent Research on the Biochemical and Genetic Levels”. Congrats, Eran Pichersky, from University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, USA!
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Mario Sandoval-Molina @msandoval-ecology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
@chemicalecology.bsky.social We're excited that the Chemical Ecology meeting has started! International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE) at Cornell University. Yaaay!
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LBVpam @lbvpam.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
[📰 Paper] Regulation of volatile biosynthesis in plants 📖 Read the article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔎 See all our publications: lnkd.in/e9JNrsTU #plantscience #research #publication #geneexpression #VOC #specializedmetabolism #biosynthesis #rose
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Regulation of volatile biosynthesis in plants
Plants synthesize and emit a diversity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a class of specialized metabolites that function as airborne signals in c…
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Tatiana Giraud @tatianagiraud.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Ce que le émojis disent de notre perception de la biodiversité: un article dans The Conversation theconversation.com/ce-que-les-e...
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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New research in #RESSystematicEnt From figs to acorns: Early #specialization and host shifts shaped the global radiation of #Curculionini #weevils (Coleoptera: #Curculionidae) doi.org/10.1111/syen.70050 #Phylogenetics @gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social
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LBVpam @lbvpam.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🎉 We’re thrilled to invite you to the inaugural lecture of our new professors 🗓️ June 12 2026 14:00 to 16:45 🥂 Reception: from 16:45 💡Interested? Please send an email to julie.machon.graeff@univ-st-etienne.fr. #professor #conference #science #volatiles #smell #plants #chemicalecology #researchlife
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Philippe Grandcolas @pgisyeb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Vous n'avez pas aimé la loi #Duplomb ni la 2nde proposition de loi ou vous voulez aider les #agriculteurs ET la #biodiversité ? Vous voulez en savoir plus ? Ce livre est pour vous ! En 168 pages aux @editionsdufaubourg.bsky.social, tout ceci est passé au crible de la science.
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Quentin PETITJEAN @qpetitjean.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
📣 Our call for science-based regulation has been published in Science: “France must protect pollinators over pesticides.” 🔗 Full article available here: doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧪 #pollinators #bees #agroecology #biodiversity #OneHealth #ecotoxicology #science
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France must protect pollinators over pesticides
Pollinating insects, which are essential to biodiversity, plant reproduction, and crop production, are in decline (1, 2). In Europe, pollinator populations have declined markedly over recent decades (...
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LBVpam @lbvpam.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Our #arum team visiting our partners at @unisalzburg.bsky.social to collect arum #flowers in the Austrian Alps Financed by @agencerecherche.bsky.social Learn more about the project anr.fr/Project-ANR-... #scentbiogenesis #deceptivestrategy #plants #VOC #terpenes #scent #ANR #pollination #pollen
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Wolfgang Cramer @cramer-bondeau.fr · 17/04/2026
« Ça va craquer » : le cri de détresse des laboratoires français du CNRS - Les coupes budgétaires étranglent la recherche en écologie reporterre.net/Dans-nos-lab...
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« Ça va craquer » : le cri de détresse des laboratoires français du CNRS
Baisse des subventions, conditions de travail dégradées... La recherche publique souffre et craint pour sa survie. Dans les laboratoires d'écologie, les chercheurs pointent une « perte de sens au trav...
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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🚨We're accepting proposals for our latest Special Feature, "Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene" joint with @animalecology.bsky.social, @jappliedecology.bsky.social and @funecology.bsky.social! 🏔️Deadline to submit is 17 May. For more info 👉️ buff.ly/iNVgR40
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 17/04/2026
In Peru, native stingless bees have become the first insects to be granted legal rights in the world. 🌎 The decision follows collaboration with Indigenous communities to document the bees. 🧪 The Guardian: ow.ly/bmw850YIc1j 🏡 IPBES Pollinators Assessment: ow.ly/tBaA50YIc1k
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
👉 N’hésitez pas à partager dans vos réseaux et à candidater! #OpenScience #INRAE #Hiring #DiamondOpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing
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Gael Kergoat @gkergoat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Paper alert! 📣 Really cool study stemming from the Master thesis of #Benjamin_Zelvelder @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social with @remiallio.bsky.social #insect host-shifts between #parasitic and non-parasitic plants! #Proc.B @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🔍 The review highlights key gaps: we need to better integrate floral chemistry, flowering timing, and pollinator sensory biology to understand how resilient these interactions are under climate warming. (8/8) 👉 doi.org/qxxv #PlantScience #AoBpapers #Pollination
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The scent of #mutualism: How evolutionary history shapes #fig flowers Li Cao, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #wasps
Conceptual framework of alternative evolutionary scenarios shaping floral scent composition in the fig-wasp mutualism.
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Joël Meunier @jmeunierearwig.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🌱 Nous ouvrons une thèse (financée) sur l’utilisation du perce-oreille européen comme agent de lutte biologique dans les vergers de pommes et poires du Centre-Val de Loire. 📌 Candidature avant le 11 mai 2026 via le portail emploi CNRS uniquement . Plus d’infos via le QR code ci-dessous.
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Christophe Duplais 🧪🐛⚗️🦋🪴🪲🌾⌬ @chemistophe.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My first podcast 😅 on how decoding the smell of organisms could help us to find solutions to protect crops in agriculture, and improve plant, animal, and human health by detecting diseases before symptoms appear! @Cornell @CornellEnto @CornellAgriTech youtu.be/szTAWwYC5bc
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How can scent molecules identify stressed plants and offer clues about human and animal health?
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Species introduction woes: How human-mediated crop transport can influence community dynamics through mutualist displacement 🌱 Fungal diseases in F. carica in the USA could be managed with the re-introduction of nematodes 🪱 🔎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
"I love biting midges because I know what their hearts look like.” @theguardian.com spoke with insect taxonomist Art Borkent about the vital importance of taxonomy—and the challenges this foundational biological science faces. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?
Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be…
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CNRS en Occitanie Est @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
📣 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐞𝐧 𝐎𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐄𝐬𝐭 A l’occasion de la journée internationale des droits des femmes, découvrez Delphine Renard, écologue des agrosystèmes au CEFE, 𝐦𝐞́𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞́𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐞 𝐂𝐍𝐑𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓. Elle explore les multiples dimensions de la biodiversité cultivée. 🎥 urlr.me/rhe3R8
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Delphine Renard : La diversité au service d'une agriculture durable et équitable | Talents CNRS
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 05/03/2026
L’Espagne dit non à Trump et à la guerre Par @bougon.bsky.social et @fabienescalona.bsky.social
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L’Espagne dit non à Trump et à la guerre
En dénonçant une action illégale et en refusant l’utilisation par Washington de deux bases militaires de la péninsule, le chef du gouvernement de Madrid, Pedro Sánchez, affirme la singularité de son pays. La France, elle, a autorisé le transit d’avions états-uniens sur la base d’Istres.
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Aline Muyle @aline-muyle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961
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Post doc position in Evolutionary biology and bioinformatics
- work environment: This postdoctoral position will be supervised by Aline Muyle and hosted at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), within the CHANGE department and the Plant ...
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Physalia-courses@ONLINE @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Join our online course on Multivariate Data Analysis with R led and vegan by @gsimpson.bsky.social , 4–7 May, and gain practical skills to analyse and interpret multivariate ecological and biological datasets. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Rstats #veganPackage
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MAGALI PROFFIT @magproffit.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Prairies sous Plexiglas, images satellite, équations… comment les scientifiques prédisent les effets du changement climatique sur les écosystèmes
Expérimentations à ciel ouvert avec des anneaux en carbone de 25 mètres, utilisations de données historiques, suivis depuis l’espace… les méthodes sont nombreuses et souvent complémentaires.
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of Lepidoptera. Candidates should have a strong research background in Lepidoptera. Applications due March 22, 2026. Info: snm.dk/en/about-museum. #job
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About the museum
Natural History Museum Denmark is beautifully located in the corner of the Botanical Garden near Nørreport Station. Until October 2022 the museum also welcomed guests at the Zoological Museum at Østerbro, which is now closed to the public in order to prepare for the new museum building that will open in the Botanical Garden in a few years time.
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La Société Francophone de Primatologie @lasfdp.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#voxprimato #master #neuroethologie les inscriptions pour le M2 Neuroscience des Systèmes à Paris Saclay sont ouvertes! De la cellule au cerveau, explorez les mécanismes sous-jacents au comportement animal et les différentes approches expérimentales pour les étudier date limite 04/04/2026 détails 👇🏽
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Arthropod Photo of the Week: February 11, 2026 Weaver ants Oecophylla sp. Hymenoptera: Formicidae Observed in West Bengal, India By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, West Bengal, India #arthropodPOTW
Four reddish-brown ants work together to carry a small white feather across a mossy surface against a dark background.
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Nina Rønsted @ninaronsted.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We are hiring Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Bryology at Natural History Museum Denmark, Copenhagen. Duties are collection-based research, curation of >350.000 bryophytes, university teaching and public engagement. Deadline 23 March 2026. Start Jan 2027. lnkd.in/eEaXnNnb
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Tatiana Giraud @tatianagiraud.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Notre tribune de scientifiques pour alerter sur les dangers de la nouvelle loi d'urgence pour l'agriculture: la science montre que l'urgence est au contraire de transformer le système agricole pour préserver notre santé, la fertilité des sols, une eau disponible et non polluée, et la biodiversité.
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Gael Kergoat @gkergoat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
1/ New weevil #brood-pollinator species described within the frame of the highly collaborative #ANR project #POLLIDIV, led by @remiallio.bsky.social and #Julien_Haran @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social 🪲🌳 europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ej...
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New species of Endaeus Schoenherr, 1826 (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Ochyromerini) associated with Annonaceae and Clusiaceae | European Journal of Taxonomy
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MAGALI PROFFIT @magproffit.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Biodiversité dans les vignobles : retours sur la journée de partage – DEFI CLE : Octaave
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 07/02/2026
Ants recognize their nestmates by their distinctive hydrocarbons, including alkenes. Ozone pollution can degrade these alkene compounds, leaving these social insects stranded in a world of strangers . In PNAS: ow.ly/qrCn50Yaq1f
Researcher with a petri dish, in which ozonated ants were presented to nest mates. 
CREDIT: Markus Knaden
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XIII European Congress of Entomology @ece2026tours.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
😱⏰Only 2 days left! Submit your abstract and get the early bird rate for the XIII European Congress of Entomology (29 June – 3 July 2026, Tours, France)! 🪲🦋🐜🪰 All details and submission: ➡️https://www.ece2026.org/ @irbi-tours.bsky.social @ece2026tours.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social
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Université de Montpellier @umontpellier.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#FemmesEnScience 🎉 Fierté pour l'UM! Isabelle Olivieri figure parmi les 72 femmes scientifiques proposées pour être inscrites sur la tour Eiffel. 1ère professeure de génétique des populations à #Montpellier, son parcours d’exception est aujourd’hui reconnu à l’échelle nationale @isemevol.bsky.social
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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 24/01/2026
La loutre d’Europe, qui a quasi disparu dans les années 1970 à cause de la chasse et de la pollution, fait son retour dans une grande partie de la France. Mais quels sont les indices de sa présence ? Reportage sur le Lez, le fleuve qui traverse Montpellier, en partenariat avec Le Monde.
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Le retour de la loutre d’Europe
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The diversity of Ficus doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The PCI-PCJ 2025 recap is here! ✨ Dive into the events of 2025 👀: peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to an amazing year! 🙏 #PCI2025 #Highlights
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LBVpam @lbvpam.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
[📰 Paper] Sesquiterpene diversity and TPS-a gene characterization in the 𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑚 genus Read the article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cnrs.fr @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social #Biochemicalcharacterization #Multiomic #pelargonium #sesquiterpenes #terpenediversity #TPS
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Sesquiterpene diversity and TPS-a gene characterization in the pelargonium genus
Sesquiterpenes are key molecules nurturing the complex and subtle base notes of pelargonium fragrances. Yet, their contribution to the essential oil o…
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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 10/01/2026
Les écologues s’intéressent désormais au rôle clé joué par les odeurs dans les interactions entre vivants, notamment entre plantes et insectes. Par @ysciama.bsky.social‬
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La science contemple enfin les paysages odorants
Les écologues s’intéressent désormais au rôle clé joué par les odeurs dans les interactions entre vivants, notamment entre plantes et insectes.
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Erik Svensson @evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8487…
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This #VirtualIssue captures the breadth and momentum of current research in #nectar and nectary biology, spanning ecology, evolution, development, and physiology 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #PlantScience
Nectar collecting at the tip of the stigma in Agapetes lacei (Ericaceae).
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Cornille “Eclectic” Lab @cornilleamand.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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