ALL OUT WAR: This image shows galls in which wasps develop attached to a parasitic love vine. Both the insects and the vines prey on oak trees, but the parasitic plant can attack the developing wasps.
Posted: August 21, 2018
Posted: August 21, 2018
Brandon Martin, Rice UniversitY
FLOOD PROTECTION: Scanning electron micrograph of wax-coated plant hairs (scale bar 20 μm), induced to grow within the galls of a social aphid species
Posted: October 31, 2018
Posted: October 31, 2018
Keigo Uematsu
SEAWEED SEQUENCE: The paving-stone arrangement of seaweed cells (Ulva mutabilis), the full genome of which researchers sequenced in September
Posted: September 17, 2018
Posted: September 17, 2018
John H. Bothwell
SLIMY BUSINESS: Nitrogen-fixing corn varieties from Mexico secrete large amounts of sugar-rich gel to help symbiotic microbes fix nitrogen for the plants.
Posted: August 13, 2018
Posted: August 13, 2018
Jean-Michel Ané
BLOOMING ALGAE: This image of a living colony of the marine algal species Licmophora...
Rafael Martin-Ledo
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