This species and other related Silene species have proven useful in sex chromosomal studies because of the relatively young chromosome age (10-20 million years) compared to the more common hundreds of millions of years in commonly used test species like Drosophila or mice. For once the poor mouse is off the hook! :-) Wish I had a mouse shot...
A weekend full of promisingly fine weather comes just in time. My scheduled posts are depleted, meaning that my current inventory just doesn't stimulate me. I have probably thousands of shots by now but many of them are out of season or uncatalogued or could/should go the way of the bit bucket. Better cataloging and tagging needs to be in my future!
I like to think that when the snow is flying that I'll be poring over a year's worth of work, building sequences of each species while getting quite organized. Well, it is a good thought...
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