Images

Photo Credits: Colautti Lab (except where noted otherwise)

General

Download Colautti Lab member holding the Oxford Nanopore Mk1C handheld sequencer.
Download Close-up of code for the baRcodeR package.

Ixodes scapularis photos (deer ticks a.k.a. blacklegged ticks)

Whole tick images
Download Overhead view of deer ticks: (left to right) adult female, adult male male and three nymphs (i.e. juvenile stage).
Download Overhead view of adult female deer tick, with ruler for scale (vertical lines = 1mm).
Download Overhead view of adult female (left) and male (right) deer tick, with ruler for scale (vertical lines = 1mm).
Download Overhead view of (left to right) nymph, adult female deer tick, and adult male tick, with ruler for scale (vertical lines = 1mm).
Photos demonstrating our dissection technique:
Download Male deer tick in extraction buffer, preparing for dissection.
Download Underside view of male deer tick in extraction buffer
Download Stage one of dissection: tiny incisions are made around the edge of the scutum (i.e. back-plate or shield), which is then peeled back to reveal the inside of the tick. Salivary glands near the mouth (white) and the gut (dark red/brown network) are visible.
Closeup and anatomy photos:
Download Closeup of female tick underside, showing the barbed, needle-like hypostome (i.e. mouth) and palp (i.e. mouth cover)
Download loseup of female tick underside, showing the barbed, needle-like hypostome (i.e. mouth) and palp (i.e. mouth cover)
Download Closeup of nymph mouthparts, showing the barbed, needle-like hypostome (i.e. mouth) and palp (i.e. mouth cover)

Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) photos

Download Close-up of Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) flowers.
Download Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) flowers with goldenrod (unidentified Solidago species) in the background.
Download Floral variation in Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) growing at the University of Toronto’s Koffler Scientific Reserve.
Download Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) in full bloom at the experimental plots at the University of Toronto’s Koffler Scientific Reserve. Photo Credit: Spencer Barrett
Download Undergraduate students assist with the set-up of the reciprocal transplant experiment at the University of Toronto’s Koffler Scientific Reserve in May 2007.
Download Close-up of Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) flowers at the University of Toronto’s Koffler Scientific Reserve.
Download Plants are bagged and harvested at the end of the 2008 growing season at the University of Toronto’s Koffler Scientific Reserve.
Download Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) Plants growing early in the growing season at the Timmins common garden site.
Download Aerial photo of large field experiment manipulating herbivory in a natural population of Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife). Transect lines are visible, along with 3 individual researchers.
Download Aerial photo of large common garden field experiment examining the evolutionary potential of Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife). Experimental blocks are visible as rectangles, with field van for scal.
Video (Top view) Drone video of students harvesting large common garden field experiment examining the evolutionary potential of Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife). Experimental blocks are visible as rectangles, with field van for scale.
Video (Side view) Drone video of students harvesting a large common garden field experiment examining the evolutionary potential of Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife). Experimental blocks are visible as rectangles, with field van for scale.
Video (Top View) Drone video, post-harvest, of large common garden field experiment examining the evolutionary potential of Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife). Experimental blocks are visible as rectangles, with field van for scale.