linkedin post 2019-12-02 05:39:18

linkedin post 2019-12-02 05:39:18

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AUGMENTED RESPONSES. “Using a setup akin to a videogame, seven patients were taught to navigate a virtual city environment with a joystick, picking up passengers and delivering them to specific stores. Appropriate electrical stimulation to the brain during the game increased their speed and accuracy in accomplishing the task.” http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579435592981780528 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-11-30 06:16:35

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FLOWERS AND POLLINATOR PROCESSES. "When considering the consequences of interactions between angiosperms and their pollinators, it is vital to consider two predominant processes influencing angiosperm diversity: interspecific hybridization and polyploidy (or whole-genome multiplication." https://lnkd.in/dHD-ddW View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-11-30 06:14:04

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BLOCKING THE BUZZ. "RNA interference on only two loci can block the production of both benzyl acetone and nicotine, resulting in fewer visits and nectar removal by pollinators, which has fitness effects (for example, altering seed set), but it also alters damage by herbivores, and nectar theft by ants." https://lnkd.in/dHD-ddW View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-12-01 07:06:04

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ENORMOUS EVOLUTIONARY GAP. "This Botanical Briefing reviews how the integration of palaeontology, geochemistry and developmental biology is providing a new mechanistic framework for interpreting the 40- to 50-million-year gap between the origination of vascular land plants and the advent of large (megaphyll) leaves, a long-standing puzzle in evolutionary biology." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-11-30 06:12:06

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VARIABLE RESPONSES. "Different flower visitors can vary in their response thresholds for the repellent effect; for example, in Nicotiana attenuata flowers, moths responded more strongly to the presence of nicotine (repulsion) and benzyl acetone (attraction) in nectar than hummingbirds." https://lnkd.in/dHD-ddW View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-12-01 07:04:28

linkedin post 2019-12-01 07:04:28

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REPURPOSED PATHWAYS. "We propose that this mechanism might have operated originally in the context of primitive plant apices to facilitate bifurcation. Recruitment of this pathway to form leaves occurred independently and in parallel in different plant lineages." Another case of bolt-on evolution. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7032/abs/nature03410.html View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-12-01 07:02:58

linkedin post 2019-12-01 07:02:58

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NOT TWO PATHWAYS. "Here we show that this is not so. Gene expression data from a microphyllous lycophyte, phylogenetic analyses, and a cross-species complementation experiment all show that a common developmental mechanism can underpin both microphyll and megaphyll formation." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7032/abs/nature03410.html View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-12-01 07:02:03

linkedin post 2019-12-01 07:02:03

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TWO PATHWAYS. "Our current understanding of how leaves develop is restricted to processes that operate during megaphyll formation. Because microphylls and megaphylls evolved independently, different mechanisms might be required for leaf formation." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7032/abs/nature03410.html View in LinkedIn
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