mimulus

British  

/ ˈmɪmjʊləs /

noun

1. See monkey flower

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Etymology

Origin of mimulus

New Latin, from Greek mimō ape (from the shape of the corolla)

Example Sentences

University of Washington plant molecular biologist H. D. "Toby" Bradshaw and his graduate student showed slides documenting as much floral diversity within a single monkeyflower species as Yuan had seen in the meadows and streambanks of the Cascades—all generated by mutating the genome of this one Mimulus species.

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"You can use Mimulus to study traits that don't even exist in Arabidopsis," Yuan says.

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At the June Mimulus meeting, Willis revealed a major clue to another monkeyflower mystery: the plants' affinity for serpentine soils.

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More than 40 labs now focus on select members of Mimulus, a number that has doubled in the past decade, says Andrea Sweigart, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Georgia in Athens.

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The number of publications on Mimulus still isn't huge—about 425—but that tally has grown rapidly in the past decade.

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