Category Archives: plants

Where Did This Flower Come From?

Posted on 19 June, 2020 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Sam Gregory wrote this post as a project for  Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Scientific Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sam earned a BS in biology and BFA in studio art from Birmingham-Southern College, and is currently pursuing an MS in … Continue reading →

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Microbial mutualists parted ways with this host plant — multiple times

Posted on 6 February, 2020 by Jeremy Yoder
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One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes and Not a Single to Spare

Posted on 3 February, 2020 by R Shawn Abrahams

What is the weight of a transcriptome? How about a thousand? Every day new sequencing machines are purring away, base pair by base pair, producing novel insights into the genomes of our favorite organisms. As technology improves, costs come down, and opportunities … Continue reading →

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Beetles’ diversity was driven by coevolution with plants — and a little help from some microbial friends

Posted on 21 January, 2020 by Jeremy Yoder
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A Master Manipulator: How a bacterium tells a plant what to do

Posted on 18 September, 2018 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Katrina Sahawneh wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Katrina is working on her MS in Biology and her MA in Education. She currently is studying ER stress … Continue reading →

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Field notes from city streets

Posted on 8 June, 2018 by Jeremy Yoder

I spent this morning in Los Angeles city parks, pulling up clover. This attracted less attention than you might expect. Angelenos are, as a group, not inclined to bother people who aren’t doing anyone else any obvious harm, and honestly … Continue reading →

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#Evol2017 catch-up — Effects of range expansions on mating system

Posted on 11 July, 2017 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Two weeks (more about that in a post I’ve written for Wednesday!) after the closing day of the 2017 Evolution Meetings, the Molecular Ecologists have all dispersed from Portland, though some may have left things behind! Still, the conference was so … Continue reading →

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Relatively rare tropical trees all agree: avoiding the ‘rain of death’ seems like a good call

Posted on 5 May, 2017 by Kelle Freel

When you think of a tropical jungle, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably a lush green landscape with trees, vines, flowers, and let’s be real, at least one toucan. Tropical forests are made up of diverse groups … Continue reading →

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Polyploidy in the era of GBS

Posted on 23 March, 2017 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Ploidy, dear reader, is something that I think about literally all the time. It impacts every facet of my research from the field to the bench to the stats used to analyze data sets. It’s been simultaneously the greatest and the … Continue reading →

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Humans, selection, evolution and ecological timescales … a potent cocktail

Posted on 12 December, 2016 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

It’s been awhile since I last was able to write for TME. But, finally, I’ve stolen away some time to write about a recent study in Ecology Letters that I couldn’t put down once I started reading it. Yes, it’s about mating … Continue reading →

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