am super excited to share some of my findings this week at #Evol2023. Stop by the Ecology session at 10:15am, Sunday, June 25, to find out how leaf traits and elevation influence fungal symbionts in monkeyflowers. #monkeyflowers #endophytes

A very small monkeyflower is very rare, but not endangered. Yet.

#monkeyflowers #NativePlants #California #botany #RarePlants

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/california-wildflower-hunt.html

Last weekend: in its most happiest habitat, predominantly here are Yellow Monkeyflowers within massive rocks at Pinnacles National Park, California. #MonkeyFlowers #PinnaclesNationalPark

RT @naomibot
#Monkeyflowers are special to me for so many reasons. The majority are annuals, over 50% of the global diversity occurs in CA, and about 60% are considered rare in the U.S. They are emblematic of the beauty of fragility of California wildflowers. Here are 3 I saw this week!🥰

#Monkeyflowers glow in a rich assortment of colors, from yellow to pink to deep red-orange. But about 5 million years ago, some of them lost their yellow. #Botanists explain what happened genetically to jettison the yellow pigment, and the implications for the #evolution of species.
#Flower #Biology #Genetics #EarthScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/02/en02102301.html

My first lead-author paper is now up on #Bioarxiv ! We characterized genomic divergence and postmating reproductive isolation in a cute but understudied group of #monkeyflowers ( #Mimulus, aka #Diplacus ) and found strong isolation caused by hybrid seed inviability as well as a case of unilateral postmating prezygotic isolation and some hybrid male sterility. Link: https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.12.21.521469v1

In a fitting conclusion to the trip, the last stretch of road was the Allan Cunningham Road, which, according to Bill, was named after a #botanist who had travelled through the region 200 years prior collecting the same #monkeyflowers. His work had left a two century mystery about these species that Bill hopes our latest trip will help resolve.

Regardless, I have now learned new and amazing things about #Evolution in this family of plants, which will help make it a model clade.

@bolivar Wooooo-hooooo!!!!!!! #monkeyflowers on mastodon.

Hey Mastodon! A brief #introduction of myself. I am a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane University. My work focuses on how #endophytes respond to and are influenced by plant leaf traits in #tropicalforest and in #mimulus #monkeyflowers. Specially how endopytes can alter leaf traits and help plants respond to #herbivore and #pathogens. I've also worked with #ants in coffee #agroecosystems. I'm more and more excited about the possibilities of #data in creating just and equitable spaces. #BoricuainSTEM

Hey Mastodon! A brief #introduction of myself. I am a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane University. My work focuses on how #endophytes respond to and are influenced by plant leaf traits in #tropicalforest and in #mimulus #monkeyflowers. Specially how endopytes can alter leaf traits and help plants respond to #herbivore and #pathogens. I've also worked with #ants in coffee #agroecosystems. I'm more and more excited about the possibilities of #data in creating just and equitable spaces. #BoricuainSTEM