STRANGE ATTEMPTED HYBRIDIZATION IN NATURE

“Nature Hath Fram’d Strange Fellows in Her Time”

P take the same license as poets and madmen, Paolo Veronese told the Inquisition Tribunal in Venice during an interrogation. Buffoons, drunkards, exotic creatures, and anachronisms in his Last Supper were placed there “so they might be of service because it seemed to me fi tting ...” in creating the scene, not as irreverence (1). The dispute was resolved by changing the name of the painting to ...

The Nature of Strange Modes in Classical Variable Stars

Strange modes have been found in the radial spectrum of many luminous stars, such as PAGB stars. The strange modes are characterized by having small amplitudes in the interior of the envelope, and egregious periods and growth-rates. It has been common belief that the strange modes are a result of strong nonadiabaticity. Recently, and perhaps surprisingly, such modes have also been found in clas...

Probing the Strange Nature of the Nucleon with Phi Photoproduction

What do we know about hybridization among bryophytes in nature?

Despite being recognized as a widespread and evolutionary important phenomenon among vascular plants, interspecific hybridization among bryophytes has been strongly underestimated. In the present review, we summarize knowledge about bryophyte hybrids that are found in nature. Mechanisms of reproductive isolation in bryophytes are compared with those in vascular plants. The morphological and gen...

Stranger in a Strange Land: Using Heterotopic Transplantations to Study Nature vs Nurture in Brain Development

The mammalian brain develops from a simple sheet of neuroepithelial cells into an incredibly complex structure containing billions of neurons with trillions of synapses. Understanding how intrinsic genetic programs interact with environmental cues to generate neuronal diversity and proper connectivity is one of the most daunting challenges in developmental biology. We recently explored this iss...