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Specialized Leaves Keep This Plant’s Fruit Warm
Specialized Leaves Keep This Plant’s Fruit Warm
A volunteer nature guide teamed up with researchers to discover a unique reproductive role for one vine’s leaves.
Specialized Leaves Keep This Plant’s Fruit Warm
Specialized Leaves Keep This Plant’s Fruit Warm

A volunteer nature guide teamed up with researchers to discover a unique reproductive role for one vine’s leaves.

A volunteer nature guide teamed up with researchers to discover a unique reproductive role for one vine’s leaves.

plant biology, ecology, evolution

Color from Structure
Cristina Luiggi | Feb 1, 2013 | 10+ min read
Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.
Photonic Colored Creatures
Cristina Luiggi | Jan 31, 2013 | 1 min read
Animals and plants come in a dizzying array of colors. Current research is cracking into the remarkable structures behind nature's artistic display.
Top 7 in Ecology
Bob Grant | Dec 6, 2011 | 3 min read
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in ecology, from Faculty of 1000
Climate-Shaped Arabidopsis Genome
Kerry Grens | Oct 6, 2011 | 3 min read
Two genome-wide studies, backed up by field experiments, identify SNPs that correlate with Arabidopsis fitness in various climates.
Evolution, Tout de Suite
Richard P. Grant | Oct 1, 2011 | 4 min read
Epigenetic perturbations could jump-start heritable variation.
Marauding Moths
Jessica P. Johnson | Oct 1, 2011 | 4 min read
Dried plant specimens reveal the origin of an insect pest that has spread throughout Europe.
An Unlichenly Pair
Hannah Waters | Aug 1, 2011 | 3 min read
A young botanist pays tribute to his mentor by naming a newly discovered, rare species in his honor.
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