Iridescent mammals are much more common than we thought It has long been claimed that only one mammal – the golden mole – has fur that shimmers with rainbow colours, but it now turns out that at least a dozen more mammals have iridescent fur too

It has long been claimed that only one mammal – the golden mole – has fur that shimmers with rainbow colours, but it now turns out that at least a dozen more mammals have iridescent fur too

Colletes hederae female

Comma (Polygonia c-album)

Ectemnius sp. female

Volucella inanis female

Ivy (Hedera helix) in September (2):

Colletes hederae ♀, Comma (Polygonia c-album), Ectemnius sp. ♀ & Volucella inanis ♀ today in Bengeo garden.

Congratulations!! 🎉⭐🎊🌿

Seaslugs in Japan.🍊

Please let me know if you figure it out! 😉

Inaturalis suggest the eggsac of a trapdoor spider, but the location does not match. 😶

It's so funky! Is there any ecological reason for this? Mimicry?

Repairing a deleterious domestication variant in a floral regulator gene of tomato by base editing - Nature Genetics A deleterious mutation in the tomato transcription factor SSP2 was enriched during domestication. Repairing the deleterious mutation in cultivated tomato by base editing leads to compact growth and ea...

Very happy to see our work on deleterious mutations in #tomato published in @naturegenet.bsky.social 🧬🌱🍅! We identify deleterious mutations that were enriched during #domestication and apply #CRISPR to repair a mutation in cultivated tomato. #genetics #plantscience

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

J'ai contribue a ecrire un chapitre sur la Palaeobotanie, evidement on parlait des coprolithes, mais je n'avais jamais entendu parler des régurgitalithes! 😅 Merci Alexandra.

Horizontal transposon transfer during plant terrestrialization During the move to land, plants acquired transposable elements by horizontal transfer from bacteria and fungi and land plants have many long non-coding RNAs derived from retrotransposons acquired by ...

Horizontal transposon transfer during plant terrestrialization
#plantscience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks Joanie!

I found one observation close to the Dean cemetery on Inaturalis. I will have a careful look. Hopefully there will be no madmen with guns!