Tsukuba, Japan—In nature, flowers may share morphological features, even across distantly related species. Bilateral symmetry is one such feature found in flowers of various taxa, such as orchids and ...

I experimentally examined in Bidens aristosa whether extent of flower symmetry affected pollination by insects. Flowers that were treated to increase asymmetry were visited by significantly fewer ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Peter Watson: That was an accident of history. When I was choosing a project for my PhD I wanted to ...

How did bilaterally symmetric flowers evolve from radially symmetric ones? To address this important question, geneticists Francisco Perfectti and Juan Pedro M. Camacho, and ecologist José M. Gómez ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...