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owlsie in wtf_nature

WTF Pea Aphids

Mar 08, 2010 03:23

The pea aphid is one of the weirdest and most versatile creatures around. It can reproduce sexually or asexually, can breed winged or unwinged babies, and is also a symbiote. This week, its genome has been sequenced ( Read more... )

gene, sex, genetics, aphid, insect

Comments 15

theidolhands March 7 2010, 17:03:35 UTC

Me liketh this article and people like you who find and spread them around. Thank you!

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drbunsen March 7 2010, 19:14:27 UTC

I thought that was pretty much accepted as fact these days?

evilstorm March 8 2010, 05:28:06 UTC

I was gonna say, it's mitochondria all over again!

dragons_wine March 7 2010, 18:41:48 UTC

That's just nuts!

And seriously interesting.

drbunsen March 7 2010, 19:16:11 UTC

The more we study genetics, the weirder it gets. Lifeforms seems to have been swapping, co-opting and borrowing genes since, well, forever. The classic "tree of life" picture of descent has gotten all twisty.

logansrogue March 8 2010, 11:19:12 UTC

It's a wibbly wobbly ball of geney weney... stuff.

drbunsen March 10 2010, 12:30:52 UTC

Well played

siroccos March 7 2010, 20:34:07 UTC

Haha, wow! That's crazy.