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Vinita Gowda

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🇮🇳Accidental scientist. 🦋treelab.wixsite.com/tree @iiserbhopal #PlantEvolution #BOTANIST #curingPlantBlindness #CancerSurvivor #GWU #NMNHBotany #NParks #ಪುತ್ತೂರು #ગુજરાત

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Morph bias reduces opportunities for geitonogamy in a monomorphic enantiostylous species Rhuthuparna and Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/ZGTZH6...
Floral and fruit morphology of enantiostylous Didymocarpus podocarpus.
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mirror-image flowers, or enantiostyly, refer to plants with left- and right-handed flowers. Usually, this is genetically fixed, but in some cases, a plant has both L & R flowers. Rhuthuparna solved this pattern in her PhD on Didymocarpus podocarpus. TrEE lab, IISER Bhopal @newphyt.bsky.social
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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🌺 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring how bract colour polymorphism influences pollination and reproduction in the nocturnal ginger Curcuma caulina. Full #openaccess doi.org/rf6q @saaaakeeeet.bsky.social @vinitagowda.bsky.social #PlantScience
Study population, bract colour morphs, natural frequency, and spectral reflectance of Curcuma caulina. (a) Mass flowering of C. caulina at Kaas plateau, showing the sympatric occurrence of bract colour morphs in the species’ native lateritic plateau habitat. The inset map shows the geographical location of the study site in peninsular India; the Western Ghats boundary is shown. (b–d) Representative inflorescences of the three bract colour morphs: (b) green–white morph (GW; 0% red on the first lateral bract), (c) green–red morph (GR; 60% red), and (d) red–white morph (RW; 100% red). Scale bars = 2 cm. (e) Natural frequency of occurrence of the three bract colour morphs recorded from field plots. Different letters above boxplots indicate statistically significant differences among morphs. (f) Spectral reflectance profiles of the three bract colour morphs measured from the first lateral bract.
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Agnes Francila @agnesfrancila.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#conservation #sciencecommunication 6/6 Urban habitats impose an “urban penalty." Implication: Designing wildlife-friendly cities is essential for sustaining urban bird populations. 💚 @vinitagowda.bsky.social 🌍 Also read our work featured here: india.mongabay.com/2026/02/urba...
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Axel Dalberg Poulsen @axelginger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Rare turquoise gem #ginger #plant species described in @phytokeys.pensoft.net See: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.272.171221 Long-term collaboration between @thebotanics.bsky.social and Indonesian botanical institutions resulted in the discovery of #Hellwigia opalina only found in #Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Advertising for 1-2 PhD positions @treelab.bsky.social Possible three projects: plant systematics, population genetics requiring interest and prior training in bioinformatics, and landscape ecology. Look for admission requirements and qualifications @ 👇🏾 phdadmission.iiserb.ac.in
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Discover IISER Bhopal, a leading institute for science education and research in India. It offers postgraduate and doctoral (Ph.D.) programs in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Data Science, ...
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Advertising for 1-2 PhD positions @treelab.bsky.social Possible three projects: plant systematics, population genetics requiring interest and prior training in bioinformatics, and landscape ecology. Look for admission requirements and qualifications @ 👇🏾 phdadmission.iiserb.ac.in
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Discover IISER Bhopal, a leading institute for science education and research in India. It offers postgraduate and doctoral (Ph.D.) programs in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Data Science, ...
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This already happened but super thanks to @trishg.bsky.social and @britishecologicalsociety.org for starting this trend. This was also the first collab between #associationOfTropicalBiologyandConservation (ATBC) DEI and BES. Its time different societies and researchers work united! 💪🏾✊🏾
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
🔥 Hot out of press 🧵 The high price of urban living in house sparrows doi.org/10.1111/btp.70… We studied sex-based differences in parental care across rural and urban habitats and their implications on the reproductive success in sparrows. @Biotropica @theATBC @agnesFrancila
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Another lovely article this week, this time by #alejandraJaramillo et al., especially for those who want to learn more about what can university botanical gardens do? Definitely read and send it to university policy makers... doi.org/10.1002/bod2...
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The Educational Garden: Exploring the Multifaceted Roles of University Botanic Gardens Through History
University botanic gardens, rooted in Renaissance humanism and medicinal teaching, have evolved into dynamic hubs for education, research, conservation, and well-being. Tracing global histories and m....
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farahcarrasco.bsky.social @farahcarrasco.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
New article! 🚨 Recognized Indigenous-managed forests in the Amazon can prevent fire-related and zoonotic and vector borne diseases in humans, especially in highly forest-degraded municipalities. Collaborative work led by Paula Prist and Julia Barreto www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status - Communications Earth & Environment
Indigenous territory extent in the Amazon biome can reduce the incidence of fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases, but only in certain contexts, according to an analysis of disease incidence...
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Why living near a forest matters... You probably will live longer, especially with good health. @farahcarrasco.bsky.social
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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Understanding mass flowering/flowering synchrony on a laterite plateau from the Western Ghats. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @saaaakeeeet.bsky.social @sukhrajkaur.bsky.social #DhargalkarRahul & #najla 3 master's students & countless years! @biotropica.bsky.social #ATBC #iiserbhopal
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Mass Flowering and Flowering Asynchrony Characterize a Seasonal Herbaceous Community in the Western Ghats
In a three-year study on the Kaas plateau (Western Ghats, India), we quantified flowering phenology across 76 herbaceous species and introduced two novel synchrony indices (SItemp and SIabd) to disti...
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farahcarrasco.bsky.social @farahcarrasco.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
@brodieecology.bsky.social @vinitagowda.bsky.social @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social @flamontano.bsky.social @biotropica.bsky.social
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farahcarrasco.bsky.social @farahcarrasco.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The ATBC Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics have been published as announcements at Biotropica. Both codes result from collective efforts involving ATBC DEI Committee members and ATBC Council and Leadership members. Code of Conduct: lnkd.in/dRDhwDsM Code of Ethics: lnkd.in/dHE93NSe #ATBC
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
There was the fantastic #atbc2025 in #oaxaca and then there was the botanical garden in Oaxaca city! Here’s the wild maize (#teosinte), #burseraceae (highest endemicity and diversity in Oaxaca!! Me for reference, look at those peeling barks!), and #ceiba #iAmABotanist
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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Ornamental Yucca filamentosa #flower in #Ithaca, NY (considered somewhat native) ... Rob Raguso says #yucca #moths have been moving North, here they are! In a tense #mutualism relationship, moths pay with active #pollination and purloin with seed #predation (larvae eat ovules). #NaturalHistory
White flower with white moth about to lay eggs
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Yuumei Art @yuumeiart.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Swept Away Somedays my brain is too fried from everything going on, so I just doodle some mindless wiggly lines that make me happy #art
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Reviewers stop with these statements.. ...I would like to see whole genome data or more genome data, although you have already presented it and I understand that it will not be possible for you to generate it... Me- I did not realise that a review is where one self-talks !!! #getALife
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This... 💯 true for any region... NOT supporting anti-free speech obviously, but let's improve our schools and universities, and be better.
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Students: Reading is not a project. Definitely not a summer project. That's what students do. Just like breathing is what living organisms do. @treelab.bsky.social there are no reading projects, but you can borrow books, or we can direct you to the aisle in the #iiserbhopal library.
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Congratulations @jyotilkdave.bsky.social on receiving ESEB Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award, 2025 to study sunbirds... @eseb.bsky.social @treelab.bsky.social #iiserbhopal
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Congratulations to the two TrEElets for receiving the Bill Dahl graduate student award @botsocamerica.bsky.social @rhuthuparna.bsky.social is studying #enanstiostyly in gesneriads, and, @sanikagoray.bsky.social is studying polymorphism + species limitations in a few plant species from W.Ghats.
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Congratulations @hemantbisht.bsky.social for the William R Anderson student #ASPT grant to study the ecology & evolution of Indian #Pedicularis. Thanks @plantingscience.bsky.social for encouraging young botanists who tackle a difficult terrain and a complex evolutionary story. @treelab.bsky.social
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The Capacity Building Committee is inviting ATBC members to a webinar that will examine what careers are available outside academia... A great line of speakers and 2 amazing moderators. Join the #ATBCWebinar on May 22 Experts from 3 continents and a subcontinent...Don’t miss it! "
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Teng Zhang | 张腾 @tengzhanguh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Please Repost! We are offering a three-year fully funded doctoral researcher position to study how floral meristem patterning in woodland strawberry, and how it implicates the diversification in floral ground plans in Angiosperm flowers. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsini-...
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In our latest @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social preprint, we describe our approach to use PacBio HiFi reads to detect somatic TE transposition -- good enough to detect rare events that are present in only single cells. Led by Andrea Movilli. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Diagram of somatic TE insertions across the A. thaliana genome
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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period." Read full statement 👉 blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-co….
Image text: ASPB Reaffirms Its Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion. Statement from ASPB’s Board of Directors, February 11, 2025. Featuring ASPB logo.
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Also on 🌎 Day.. Two of my amazing @treelab.bsky.social students launched #ScienceOnBananaLeaf A Malayalam science blog! ❤️👏🏾 Great job @aleenaxavier.bsky.social and @rhuthuparna.bsky.social scienceonbananalea.wixsite.com/scienceonban... scienceonbananalea.wixsite.com/scienceonban...
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Science on banana leaf | malayalam science blog
We are a wholesome malayalam science bloggers. In Science on Banana leaf, you may find the local and scientific names of our backyard plants, animals, birds, and whatnot, interesting scientific articl...
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It's Earth Day 🌎 and here's a lovely article by budding scientist @sekhar-anupama.bsky.social from the Tree Lab ... Happy Earth Day! www.biotalesindia.com/blog/lab-lif...
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Chasing Plant Fragrances
"People often ask me, “Why go through all the trouble of collecting floral scents directly from the field? Can’t you just pluck the flowers, boil them, and extract the essence?” Well, sure, I could do...
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
THIS is why I am on social media...👇🏾 #gem
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Botany One @botany.one · 13/04/2025
From understanding flower evolution to challenging pollination crisis theories, Dr. Marcelo Aizen has redefined our knowledge of plant-animal interactions. Read his story before his Botany 2025 keynote.
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Marcelo A. Aizen: “Pollination is More Than Just Animals Visiting Flowers”
Botany One interviews Dr Marcelo A. Aizen, an Argentinian researcher fascinated for the interactions between plants and pollinators.
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
📖Published📖 Michelot-Antalik et al present a handbook of standardized protocols dedicated to floral traits that can be applied to a wide set of temperate plant species to quantify these traits at the scale of plant communities 🌼 🌎 🧪
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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Third draft of this year's @ijpsjournal.bsky.social bandana. In case it is not obvious, we sweat over the details at @ijpsjournal.bsky.social. #PlantScience
Third draft of the 2025 IJPS bandana, combining the old-school font that used to be on our covers + our b-day logo + text from our 1st issue in 1875.  Yellow background, green text.
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Two positions in the @TrEE_Lab Looking for students who are interested in genomic work & have basic training in handling genomic data. If you have a penchant for coding, writing scripts, & an interest in solving population genetic patterns in plants, apply! April 15th deadline.
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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Spurge laurel (Daphne laureola) populations in Cazorla are gynodioecious, i.e., comprise individuals with either hermaphrodite (left) or male-sterile flowers. Local sex ratios experience a striking long-term dynamics, and these days I'm revisiting populations which I started monitoring ~30 yr ago
Close-up photos of small greenish flowers
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Listening to The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman - it is SO good #birds #books #science #ornithology amzn.to/3DzEz5D
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The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
Buy The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Join us as we unearth hidden stories in botany... On Wednesday 5 March, 12:30 - 13:15, @gemblina.bsky.social will give a free talk exploring the overlooked contributions of women in plant science through photography, illustration and rare archives. Book your spot here: bit.ly/3QEeKEE
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Interstices | The Hidden Histories of Women in Botany
Discover Gem Toes-Crichton's unique artist's book & the many ways art and science can engage people with plants, history, and photography.
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Phil Stevenson @philstevenson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees - Urban Ecosystems
Pollination is crucial for biodiversity and food security, with bees playing a significant role. The growing popularity of urban beekeeping is leading to increasing honeybee densities in cities, raisi...
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thank the jumping genes for all the hot peppers! New study www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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DrZP @zarahpattison.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
General-purpose genotypes and evolution of higher plasticity in clonality underlie knotweed invasion nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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General‐purpose genotypes and evolution of higher plasticity in clonality underlie knotweed invasion
Many widespread invasive plant species express high phenotypic variation across novel environments, providing a unique opportunity to examine ecological and evolutionary dynamics under global change...
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PhytoKeys @phytokeys.pensoft.net · 20/02/2025
Discovered in the Andean cloud forests of northern Peru, a new species in the blazing star family has reinforced the vital role of citizen science in plant research. Read more on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/02/20/n... @zalf.bsky.social
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New blazing star discovery highlights the power of citizen science
The rare plant was identified thanks to photographs uploaded to iNaturalist.
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Botany One @botany.one · 19/02/2025
📝 Endangered Vanilla Orchids Hiding in Plain Sight 🧵 doi.org/n7k3 What was thought to be a single vanilla orchid species turns out to be two distinct plants, both fighting for survival. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief You might think vanilla is plain, but research shows it’s anything but.
A yellow vanilla orchid flower blooms against dark green, oval-shaped leaves. The flower has broad petals and is growing on a climbing vine that wraps around a palm tree trunk.
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PhytoKeys @phytokeys.pensoft.net · 19/02/2025
The 'wooly devil' is the first new genus and species of plant discovered in a U.S. national park for nearly 50 years. Read about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/02/19/t... @calacademy.bsky.social @ca-naturalist.bsky.social
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The woolly devil: a landmark U.S. plant discovery
Belonging to the sunflower family, the tiny plant was found in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
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Chad Husby @chadhusby.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Some Sansevieria species from the region around the Horn of Africa can have dramatic orange root color. This is a beautiful glaucous form of Sansevieria powellii with elegant long spiralling leaves that I recently planted near the Garden House Lawn @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
To the ones in the pictures and the ones I am missing in the pictures: three cheers to the emerging TrEE lab women in STEM. It may not be easy, but we choose to twinkle and shine. Wishing the best to all girls and women in Science and thanks to the critical male support too... #WomenInSTEM
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Botany One @botany.one · 09/02/2025
Scientists discover male orchid bees return repeatedly to specific trees to collect scents, showing sophisticated perfume-creation behavior in tropical rainforests. wp.me/pdRZhH-lGz
A macro photograph showing the frontal view of an orchid bee's head against a dark background. The image emphasizes two large, rounded compound eyes that dominate the sides of the face, appearing silvery-grey with a delicate, mesh-like texture. Between these eyes runs a black, textured facial surface with a subtle metallic sheen. Two segmented antennae extend from the top of the head. The photograph's exceptional clarity and magnification reveal the intricate structural details of this pollinator's sensory organs and exoskeleton.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
🎉🆕📰🎉: Phylogenomic analysis of target enrichment and transcriptome data uncovers rapid radiation and extensive hybridization in the slipper orchid genus Cypripedium
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