Gaping Maw of Aquatic Killer Wins Micro-Photo Competition Igor Siwanowicz, a neurobiologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus, took the winning image of the floating carnivorous plant, called the humped bladderwort (Utricularia gibba). For his photo, Siwanowicz colored the cells of the bladderwort with the cellulose-binding fluorescent dye Calcofluor and then magnified the subject 100 times using a laser scanning ...
Dec. 16, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
Alfred Russel Wallace in Press of Atlantic City What a wonderful and long-continued series of variations must have led up to the perfect 'trap' in Utricularia (the bladderwort's genus),fellow evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace wrote in a letter to Darwin in 1875, "while at any...