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BACTERIAL IMMORTALITY. “ Bacteria reproduce through binary fission. A parent bacterium splits itself into two identical daughter cells which eventually then split themselves in half. This process repeats, thus making the bacterium essentially immortal.” https://lnkd.in/dSv9Bfm View in LinkedIn

SCENTED HONEY POT. "Growing evidence suggests that floral volatiles can play an important role in specific pollinator attraction, thus mediating floral isolation. In European sexually deceptive orchids of the genus Ophrys, well known for their highly specific pollinator attraction, floral chemistry is known to be the primary mechanism for maintaining pollinator attraction and floral isolation." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03308.x/full View in LinkedIn

POINT OF NO RETURN. "The onset of sexual reproduction has been hypothesized to be the point of no return in the ontogenetic sequence of any living organism." This is defied by Turritopsis nitricula. http://www.biolbull.org/content/190/3/302.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

FAKE SEX PHEROMONE. "The “sexually deceptive” orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformis attracts males of its pollinator species, the thynnine wasp Neozeleboria cryptoides, by emitting a unique volatile compound, 2-ethyl-5-propylcyclohexan-1,3-dione, which is also produced by female wasps as a male-attracting sex pheromone." https://lnkd.in/d3KgzuJ View in LinkedIn

ONTOGENY REVERSAL. "All stages of the medusa Turritopsis nutricula, from newly liberated to fully mature individuals, can transform back into colonial hydroids, either directly or through a resting period, thus escaping death and achieving potential immortality. This is the first metazoan known to revert to colonial hydroids, either directly or through a resting period, thus escaping death and achieving potential immortality." http://www.biolbull.org/content/190/3/302.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

Trump administration lifts ban on pesticides linked to declining bee numbers. Unfathomable. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/04/trump-administration-lifts-ban-on-pesticides-linked-to-declining-bee-numbers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX BOQUET. "We identified more than 100 compounds in the odor bouquets of labellum extracts from O. sphegodes; 24 compounds were found to be biologically active in male olfactory receptors...analyses of odors from individual flowers showed less intraspecific variation in the odor bouquets of the biologically active compounds as compared to nonactive compounds." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb01243.x/abstract View in LinkedIn

VISUAL AND OLFACTORY CUES. "The orchid Ophrys sphegodes Miller is pollinated by sexually excited males of the solitary bee Andrena nigroaenea, which are lured to the flowers by visual cues and volatile semiochemicals." https://lnkd.in/dnjRu_H View in LinkedIn

CHEMICAL MIMICRY. "We have so far discovered six novel compounds, all 2,5-dialkylcyclohexan-1,3-diones, that are involved in the orchid chemical mimicry. These ‘chiloglottones’ represent a new class of natural product so far only known from Australian sexually deceptive orchids and their pollinators." https://lnkd.in/dCtjUuU View in LinkedIn

EXQUISITE PERFUME. "In sexually-deceptive Chiloglottis, a single odour compound is responsible for attracting male thynnine wasps. Small changes in the functional group of this compound may be responsible for the species-specific attraction of wasps shown by Chiloglottis." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/59/5/1085.full.pdf View in LinkedIn