tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874780651133534459.post8462694647124803665..comments2023-11-08T21:41:46.299-07:00Comments on Evolution, Life and other musings: random thought for the dayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09451390165397714000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874780651133534459.post-79164205387959397502008-06-01T10:17:00.000-07:002008-06-01T10:17:00.000-07:00Interesting question. Plants are known to have LOT...Interesting question. Plants are known to have LOTS of "junk DNA" and thus are likely not undergoing the same process as fugu. It does bring up a concept I've struggled with though. What controls the phenomenon we've observed? Is it changes in the regulatory region or changes in the genes? Recent works by a fellow grad student (yet to be published) suggested that regulatory changes are Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09451390165397714000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874780651133534459.post-32404307142894956842008-05-30T21:37:00.000-07:002008-05-30T21:37:00.000-07:00I'm just an uneducated (scientifically) but intere...I'm just an uneducated (scientifically) but interested reader.<BR/><BR/>I can't help but notice that what you describe in this post seems similar to what PZ describes about the "Japanese puffer fish, or fugu".<BR/><BR/>http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/05/random_acts_of_evolution_1.php<BR/><BR/>Are these completely different phenomena or not?Rich Beckmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577609942588267483noreply@blogger.com