Comments on: Kangaroo DNA has been sequenced for the first time https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/ Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:49:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Chris Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507103 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:49:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507103 Was there ever a creature that did pugnacious better? Looking at this picture, I get the clear impression that the beast is saying, “I’ll teach you to sequence my DNA!”

This, of course, is why kangaroo DNA has only just been sequenced รข?? and why it took 103 people to accomplish the task.

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]]> By: skippy https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507102 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:28:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507102 thank god! now i can sleep at nights!

j/k, luv ur blog greg!

]]> By: kwik https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507101 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:27:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507101 Not antibiotics, not antibodies but antimicrobial peptides: “The sequencing of the genome uncovered a family of cathelicidin genes, which are expressed in the mammary gland during lactation and encode powerful antimicrobial peptides.”

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507100 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:41:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507100 The one that interests me most here is thylacine (Tassie Tiger) DNA – and could we bring them back? ๐Ÿ˜‰

]]> By: kwik https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507099 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:08:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507099 “One interesting finding is the identification of genes that code for immune products (antibiotics)…” – I think you mean “antipodes”.

]]> By: Geoff https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507098 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:54:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507098 In your title, I think you mean “been”.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507097 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:27:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507097 They would have been some of the first to be sequenced if I had anything to do with it…right after the koalas and platypuses!

]]> By: hannah's dad https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507096 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:42:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/19/kangaroo-dna-has-bee-sequenced/#comment-507096 On my property in the semi arid zone of South Australia we have 3 kangaroo species.
-Macropus rufus aka reds that use embryonic diapause, which is logical cos they are an arid living species and diapause is well adapted to such.
-M. robustus aka wallaroo/euro which uses embryonic diapause which is logical cos ….
-M. fulingosus aka western grey pkangaroo which lives more in the arid regions than does its eastern cousin M. giganteus…. but doesn’t utilise embryonic diapause. Yet the eastern does [well ‘delayed implantation’ is the phrase used in my field guide to Aussie mammals.
Furthermore they [eastern and westerns] can interbreed [in captivity] but only produce infertile offspring unless its the male of one [I forget which] and the female of the other, but not vice versa and then the offspring can be fertile and have delayed implantation/embryonic diapause whatever.
Or something like that.
Weird critters.

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