#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
How a single-#gene change led to a new #species of #monkeyflower.
[just in time for Darwin's birthday]
#mimulus #mutation #evolution #sirna #YUP
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-single-gene-species-monkeyflower.html
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. In the Feb. 10 issue of Science, UConn botanists explain what happened genetically to jettison the yellow pigment, and the implications for the evolution of species.