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Experiments pinpointed genetic variants associated with successful adaptation to climate change
UC Berkeley News: One-of-a-kind experiment tracked plant evolution in response to climate change at 30 sites worldwide: Moisés Expósito-Alonso with the two lead authors of the new study, Tatiana Bellagio and Xing Wu (holding a tray of Arabidopsis seedlings).
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Sunbird uses tongue to suck up nectar
UC Berkeley News: Sunbirds suck, scientists find. Hummingbirds don't: “It’s just a really amazing example of the power and beauty of convergent evolution, where in nature we have two organisms filling the same ecological role, but when you look in detail, they’re achieving that outcome in two completely different ways,” said Rauri Bowie, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology and a study author.
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