André Vidal-Capón

An illustration of Hypercium elodes, or St John's Wort, a tall leafy stalk with yellow flowers at the top.

An illustration of Gentiana pneumonanthe, or the Marsh Gentian. A long thin stem with thin leaves in pairs, and two blue buds at the top.

It's #WorldWetlandsDay today! While considering what we can all do to protect these vulnerable ecosystems, we're sharing some botanical illustrations of marsh flowers from 'English Botany', a collaborative work between James Sowerby and Sir James Edward Smith.

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Great Littorina Research Community meeting this week! 🐌🌊🐚
The Fiasco team crushed the presentations 🎯 and the feedback was amazing 💗
So many valuable inputs — we can't wait for the next steps! ! 💪✨

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Inversions support both parallel and location-specific adaptations in snail ecotypes Replicated hybrid zones between ecotypes established over within shore environmental gradients provide an opportunity to study the genomic architecture of barriers to gene flow. The marine snail Litto...

New results on Littorina fabalis ecotypes! 🐌
Inversions aren't just enabling parallel adaptation to wave exposure in France & Sweden, they're also hotspots for site-specific differences, including a striking color QTL associated with one inversion but only in France.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Ink and watercolour drawings of shells, birds and fungi from Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, northeast England

Beach wildlife and strandline finds from an early morning walk last month. (Hartlepool, northeast England).
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Cool people, cool projects, cool science!

Thanks for the opportunity ❤️ 🧬

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