By: Ed Yong
Ah but I never claimed that Judson said it first, merely that she once said it. Ka-pow!
View ArticleBy: Lisa-Natalie Anjozian
Love the post, love the personas of the posters. Regarding Nathan’s request for more bdelloid media, and Ed’s graphic “Ka-pow” response, I flashed on a Speed Racer-like cartoon featuring these...
View ArticleBy: Reviewer 3
Two questions, if you have time: if the bdelloids escape the parasitic fungi by dessicating themselves so the fungal cells and spores shatter, how do the bdelloids survive when their cell membranes and...
View ArticleBy: Ed Yong
Reviewer 3 – the quick answer to the first one is that they’re really, really good at repairing their DNA. If I’m remembering correctly, their chromosomes are tetraploid, meaning they have four copies...
View ArticleBy: amphiox
With respect to Reviewer #3′s second question, how can we be certain that the fungi have also been co-evolving with the rotifers for 80 million years? These particular fungi could well have evolved to...
View ArticleBy: Nathan Myers
Why don’t the fungus keep up? I think the global distribution of bdelloids might have something to do with it; there’s always a population in some place that is uncomfortable for any particular fungus....
View ArticleBy: TerryDarc
How do we know that the bdelloids are all “female”? I don’t what the sexual determination of rotifers is but apparently the bd’s don’t have that? -Terry
View ArticleBy: Brian Schmidt
I’ll bet the “dry up and blow away” defense is less than perfect from the bdelloid’s viewpoint, because it seems likely that quite a few of them will die somewhere instead of finding a good home. So...
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