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Only six weeks after the capture of "Houdini", the amazing garden dormouse, we startet today on yet another animal rescue mission. A young bird slipped through a water drain into a narrow space between the window and the balcony right outside the LFW E55 laboratory.

A recent "Molecular Ecology" paper by the Bomblies group (IMPB) shows that meiotic recombination rate, as well as abnormal chromosome associations that can lead to aneuploidy, co-​vary with temperature across a growing season in wild populations of a tetraploid plant, Arabidopsis arenosa.