From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 16:37:55 MDT
Jeff Davis <jrd1415@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>> Why/how the Fugu genome manages to
> produce a vertebrate with ~10x less genomic code will
> indeed be a very interesting puzzle to answer.
>
> Once the proto-fugu evolved the poison by which it is
> protected and noteworthy it didn't need any additional
> genetic "flourishes".
That might be better expressed as "once it developed the ability to deal
with the poison...", since AFAIK fugu grown in tanks in captivity don't
become toxic. The smart money seems to be on fugu concentrating and
isolating tetrodotoxin from their diet, not making it themselves.
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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