Comments on: Puffers, Platypi & Penises With Teeth: 8 Surprising Genomes That We’ve Sequenced

By: Cristen Thursby

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By: Reader

Reader — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:18:25 +0000

Helps to read the story…Para 2 says the mole rat “looks like a penis with teeth”.

By: Duane

Duane — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:51:32 +0000

Where is the one about teeth? We were robbed.

By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM

Torbjörn Larsson, OM — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:45:56 +0000

Naked Mole Rats in Spaaace!

Favorite genomes:

- Sponges.

Because they tell of multicellularity, and because some of its tissue genes goes back to slime molds. ["A Polarized Epithelium Organized by β- and α-Catenin Predates Cadherin and Metazoan Origins", Dickinson et al.]

And slime molds (Dictyostelids in the fig) are Amoebozeans that branched near the root of Eukaryotes.

- Cocoa.

Om nom nom nom!

- Lice.

Because their different genomes tells us when we started to have clothes and when we met species like the Denisovans.

By: Jumblepudding

Jumblepudding — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:34:58 +0000

I feel robbed that this article was not about an organism that had genes that caused teeth on its penis.

By: Blue

Blue — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:09:29 +0000

It would probably help if you clicked on the pictures at the top, Lyllyth.

By: lyllyth

lyllyth — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:02:03 +0000

I didn’t see anything about puffers or platypi!

What gives? I feel robbed of the information. =(