Feel like a kid on Christmas when I see the little #mimulus seedlings come up

A big clump of the plant, with lots of foliage and bright magenta trumpet-shaped flowers scattered.

#Erythranthe lewisii, fka #Mimulus lewisii magenta monkey-flower, growing in an alpine meadow.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

Mimulus Cia de Dança reflete sobre escolhas e transformações em novo espetáculo ‘Chão’ estreia sábado (24) na Campanha de Popularização do Teatro, em BH

‘Chão’ estreia sábado (24) na Campanha de Popularização do Teatro, em BH

#entretenimento #cultura #teatro #espetáculo #dança #chão #companhia #mimulus #bh #paláciodasartes #jornalhojeemdia

Map of western United States showing the six focal populations of Mimulus cardinalis used in this study. Populations were sourced from the leading edge (N1 and N2), range center (C1 and C2), and trailing edge (S1 and S2) of the range of M. cardinalis and are set on a backdrop of grey-scale extreme maximum temperature across a 30-year period from 1981

Rangewide responses of #Mimulus cardinalis to an extreme heat event

New #AJB research by Lucas Albano, Robin Bingham, Sulma Correa, Catherine Laufenberg, Cristina Payst, Christopher Muir & Seema Nayan Sheth

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #climatechange

Transgenerational plasticity affects fitness and mediates local adaptation Transgenerational plasticity (TGP) could be as decisive of a factor in phenotypic outcomes as allelic variation and within-generation plasticity. While TGP is often associated with priming offspring t...

New #mimulus preprint! We found grandparental environments exhibit strong effects on the fitness of their grand-offspring and whether this was positive or negative depended on the historical environment, showing TGP is locally adaptive

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A coastal perennial Mimulus guttatus plant overexpressing an anthocyanin MYB gene. The leaves and buds, normally green, are a deep purple, and the flower, normally yellow, is a bright red-orange

Just add water: A simple floral bud injection method for stable Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in two ecotypes of #Mimulus guttatus

New in #AppsPlantSci by @lestanley.bsky.social & @davidlowry.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #Agrobacterium #plantscience

New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾

STERILE APETALA is required for nectar accumulation in Mimulus verbenaceus.

STERILE APETALA regulates #nectar volume and nectary size in #Mimulus verbenaceus

#Letter by Zhai, et al.

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#PlantScience

Mimulus guttatus plant with pine trees in the background

Perennial plant laid out for measuring showing stolons and ramets

Graduate students measuring plants in the field

Sunny afternoon measuring field experimental plants #mimulus #SequoiaNatlPark #iamabotanist 🧪🌾

A Central Oregon subalpine meadow with a large patch of yellow monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatus).

Heat waves decrease fitness & alter maternal provisioning in natural populations of #monkeyflower

New #AJB research by Nicholas Kooyers, Mark Genung, Simon Innes, Andrea Turcu, Donna Hinrichs, Benjamin LeBlanc & Courtney Patterson
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #globalchange #Mimulus

A white person with dark hair pulled back and round glasses stands at a podium in front of a conclusion slide of a presentation. The main points highlight “directional selection favored novel negative plasticity, canalization may be disadvantageous, and experimental approach reveals hidden adaptive potential”

@jillmlove.bsky.social gave an awesome talk about plasticity in leaf lobing in #Mimulus

Screen grab of a powerpoint talk title slide with a tan background. The title in black text reads "Floral trait variation and gene expression in Mimulus cardinalis across a range-wide latitudinal gradient". Below is my contact info (Kelsey J.R.P. Byers (any/all pronouns), Group Leader, John Innes Centre, Kelsey.Byers@jic.ac.uk, @plantpollinator (Bluesky) with the Bluesky butterfly logo). In the upper right is the John Innes Centre logo. In the lower right is a side view of a photo of a bright red flower which is being "visited" by a drawing of a green and white and red hummingbird.

Interested in learning more about range-wide variation in floral traits in #Mimulus cardinalis? Join me in Mesquite C (Phytochemical section) at 9:15am this morning (Tuesday) to find out!

Getting really excited for #Botany2025 next week! I'm giving two talks: one on disability inclusion and orchids (Monday 14:15-14:45 Catalina) and one on range-wide variation in floral traits in #Mimulus cardinalis (Tuesday 1015-1030 Mesquite C)! Looking forward to seeing many of you there :-)

I'm missing #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social this year, but representing the lab is fantastic grad student @isabeaulewis.bsky.social speaking on Mon Jun 23 in Evolutionary Ecology III at 2:45 on kin discrimination in #Mimulus plants!

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Yellow monkey flowers against a blue china birdbath

Pleased to see these wild yellow monkey flowers in my garden again this spring. They’re never in the same place twice but they seem to thrive even so.
🌱 #wildflowers #mimulus #bloomscrolling

Jelly Bean Scarlet Monkeyflower, Diplacus (Mimulus) ‘Jelly Bean Scarlet’ in the garden. #californianativeplants #monkeyflower #diplacus #mimulus

Jelly Bean Lemon Monkeyflower, Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Lemon'

Jelly Bean Lemon Monkeyflower, Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Lemon' in the garden. #californianativeplants #jellybeanlemonmonkeyflower #monkeyflower #mimulus

Looking forward to reading this exciting #Mimulus paper! Lots of very cool stuff in here.

Congratulations Kelsey and team!!
#colour #transition #Mimulus

Fiesta Marigold Monkeyflower, Mimulus 'Fiesta Marigold'

The monkeys keep coming. Fiesta Marigold Monkeyflower, Mimulus 'Fiesta Marigold' in the garden. #californianativeplants #monkeyflower #mimulus

Albert Tucci dissertation defense announcement for Friday March 14th at 10AM. To be held at the Stephens Room (3503 Thomas Hall) at NC State and on the zoom link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96471138441?pwd=1LxpKgjX316EgWZmITubEalmaV9b1T.1

Interested in hybrid seed development in #monkeyflowers? Or copy number variation association with #AlzheimersDisease? Come hear my dissertation defense this Friday at 10AM at #NCState or on zoom!
#bioinformatics 🧬💻 #NCSU #mimulus #evolution #speciation #endoperm #ADSP

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Jelly Bean Dark Pink Monkeyflower, Mimulus ‘Jelly Bean Dark Pink’

Jelly Bean Dark Pink Monkeyflower, Mimulus ‘Jelly Bean Dark Pink’ in the garden. #californianativeplants #monkeyflower #mimulus #gardening

Photograph of perennial Mimulus guttatus along a creek

Image from published paper showing that plants invest in more flowers and more stolons when surrounded by unrelated plants, compared to when their neighbours are relatives.

For something uplifting... Mimulus is kind to its kin!

We add to the growing evidence that plants sense their neighbours and respond differently to kin vs unrelated individuals!

Congratulations to @isabeaulewis.bsky.social 🧪🌾 #evolution #mimulus #botany

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Me standing next to a podium in front of a projector screen displaying two photos of Monkeyflowers.

Me standing under a projector screen explaining a slide with histograms and linear discriminant analysis results.

Had a lovely time presenting at the @binghamtonu.bsky.social Biology Graduate Student Organization annual symposium! Loved learning about my colleagues' cool research!
Congrats to @knechtfour.bsky.social 's undergrads Rachel and Jovana for winning best poster! 🎉
#Mimulus #Binghamton

A room with a tray of yellow-flowered Diplacus plants, and a photography setup in which there is a box with ring lights and a camera overhead, connected to a laptop. Most importantly, there's a thermos of coffee to the side.

Photographing flowers. The fact that this little room feels like a dungeon is offset by the sunshine-y colors of these beauties. #Mimulus

A woman (me) wearing a gray sleeveless shirt and red pants with hands in pockets standing on the side of the road in front of a scrub/desert field, which is in front of two nearby mountain peaks. It's a sunny day with no cloud in the sky. This was taken while doing fieldwork in California in May 2023.

Two yellow bilaterally symmetrical flowers of a Mimulus F2 hybrid in a greenhouse with a stem and leaves beneath them.

Hello world! I'd like to introduce myself to Bluesky - I'm a PhD student in the Sobel Lab at Binghamton University interested in ecological factors influencing divergence and reproductive isolation. I study ecological #speciation in two closely related taxa in #Mimulus.
#evolution #ecology

Fluctuating selection in a monkeyflower hybrid zone Abstract. While hybridization was viewed as a hindrance to adaptation and speciation by early evolutionary biologists, recent studies have demonstrated the

New Ferris Lab paper on fluctuating selection in a #Mimulus hybrid zone is out at Evolution Letters!!!!! So proud of this project and publication led by the fabulous @dianatataru.bsky.social . Check it out at the link below:
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Three-part figure of photos showing two yellow monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatus) from coastal habitats sit next to each other, with southern populations being taller than northern populations (panel A). Tall, Californian monkeyflower populations sit on a hillside protected from the wind in Monterey Bay (panel B) while short Oregonian monkeyflowers are more exposed to wind on their hillside habitat (panel C).

Ocean exposure & latitude drive multiple clines within the coastal perennial ecotype of the yellow #monkeyflower, #Mimulus guttatus

New #AJB research by Thomas Zambiasi & David Lowry

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

Regional differences in leaf evolution facilitate photosynthesis following severe drought Characterizing physiological and anatomical changes that underlie rapid evolution following climatic perturbation can broaden our understanding of how climate change is affecting biodiversity. It ca.....

So excited to share our recent @newphyt.bsky.social
paper on #evolution of #mimulus #leaf traits in response to #drought

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fluctuating selection in a Monkeyflower hybrid zone bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

New Ferris Lab preprint on fluctuating selection in a
#Mimulus hybrid zone from @dianatataru.bsky.social
!!!!!! We find both positive and negative selection on hybrids in years with dramatically different snowpack levels.
#Mimuluspropaganda

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