Direct Effects of Polyploidization on Floral Scent.

Polyploidy is an important driver of the evolution and diversification of flowering plants. Several studies have shown that established polyploids differ from diploids in floral morphological traits and that polyploidization directly affects these traits. However, for floral scent, which is key to many plant-pollinator interactions, only a few studies have quantified differences between established cytotypes, and the direct effects of polyploidization on floral scent are not yet known.

Listen, Empower, Co-Create: Adapting Boot Camp Translation Methods to Create Culturally Responsive Health Messages and Materials.

Background: Community engagement is key to developing culturally responsive public health interventions that resonate with diverse populations and promote health equity.

Brief Description Of Activity: We applied an adapted version of Boot Camp Translation (BCT), a community-based participatory approach, to develop culturally and locally relevant messaging and materials for diverse populations. This adapted BCT approach focuses on three core themes: (1) Listen, (2) Empower, and (3) Co-Create, or LEC.

Gene model for the ortholog of in .

Gene Model for the ortholog in the (dgriCAF1) assembly (GeneBank Accession: GCA_000005155.1) of The characterization of this ortholog was conducted as part of a broader, developing dataset aimed at investigating the evolution of the Insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling (IIS) pathway across the genus , using the Genomics Education Partnership gene annotation protocol within Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences.

The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions.

Biological communities are changing rapidly in response to human activities, with the high rate of vertebrate species extinction leading many to propose that we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event. Five past mass extinction events have commonly been identified across the Phanerozoic, with the last occurring at the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago (Ma). However, life on Earth has always changed and evolved, with most species ever to have existed now extinct.