April 10, 2020
On top of Salt Pond Mountain, Campanula pollen is vibrant purple. In the New River valley below, Campanula pollen is faint tan. Why is pollen purple on top of the mountain and tan at the bottom?
The Galloway lab’s forthcoming paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology authored by Matt Koski, a recent post-doc in the lab and now a faculty member at Clemson University, is the latest in a series of experiments exploring how such a beautifully simple field observation can have a surprisingly complex natural history. Brodie lab member Sarah McPeek has written a blog about this research, which can be read by clicking here. The beautiful cover image for the Journal of Evolutionary Biology is shown below.
