Floral Nectary Anatomy and Ultrastructure in Mycoheterotrophic Plant, Epipogium aphyllum Sw. (Orchidaceae) by Emilia Święczkowska, Agnieszka K. Kowalkowska

“…Epipogium aphyllum is a European-Asian obligatory mycoheterotrophic orchid containing no chlorophyll. Flowers are not resupinate with a sack-shape spur and cordate lip, which is divided into two parts: the basal (hypochile) and distal one (epichile). …”
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Illustrating Animals and Visualizing Natural History in Chambers’s Encyclopaedias by Rose Roberto

“…In the 19th century, there was wide-spread public interest in natural history, as reflected in the high attendance at zoos and travelling menageries, in the market for popular field guides, in fashions for orchid collecting, fossil hunting and aquarium building, and in well-attended popular science lectures. …”
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Vanilla lindmaniana and V. palmarum (Orchidaceae) are distinct allopatric species by Emerson R. Pansarin

“…Species delimitation based on ecological divergencies, plus geographic disjunctions have advanced the current evaluation and understanding of diversity in this economically and ecologically important orchid genus. All evidence reveals that V. lindmaniana is distinct from V. palmarum. …”
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Coordination of natural and built infrastructure to better manage extreme events: a hydro-finance modeling framework by Hongkai Gao, Reepal Dinesh Shah, Dai Yamazaki, Theodore J Bohn, Glen Low, John Louis Sabo

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PICT: A low‐cost, modular, open‐source camera trap system to study plant–insect interactions by Vincent Droissart, Laura Azandi, Eric Rostand Onguene, Marie Savignac, Thomas B. Smith, Vincent Deblauwe

“…We successfully field‐tested PICT in a Central African rainforest in two contrasting research settings: an insect pollinator survey in the canopy of the African ebony Diospyros crassiflora and the observation of rare pollination events of an epiphytic orchid Cyrtorchis letouzeyi. PICT overcomes many of the limitations commonly associated with CT systems designed to monitor ectotherms. …”
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Evaluation of efficacy and safety of generic tacrolimus (Suprotac®) compared to reference tacrolimus (Prograf^®) in kidney transplantation: a phase IV study by Behzad Einollahi, Mohsen Nafar, Mohammad Javanbakht, Amirhesam Alirezaei, Jalal Azmandian, Abbas Etminan, Mohammad Reza Ardalan, Jalal Etemadi, Roghayeh Akbari, Vahid Pourfarziani, Seyed Sadraddin Rasi Hashemi, Seyed Maryam Rahbar, Shahrzad Shahidi, Javid Safa, Hamid Tayyebi Khosroshahi, Sima Abedi Azar, Shahrzad Ossareh, Abdolamir Atapour, Bahareh Marghoob, Fatemeh Nazemian, Hamidreza Kafi, Araz Sabzvari

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