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Post by schnautzr on Jan 16, 2010 1:05:37 GMT
I don't know if anyone is into marine biology, but I've discovered something highly unusual...at least, it appears to be highly unusual.
I'm working with a prepared slide of an ephyra (adolescent larva) of a moon jelly Aurelia at my university shows some odd characteristics: six stomachs (instead of four), six gonads (instead of four), and eleven pairs of lappets (instead of eight). Oddly enough, the organs are all proportionately distributed, which is why I didn't realize anything was wrong until I started researching the jelly.
Anyone know anything about this sort of thing? I may end up doing a study on it to find out what causes the mutation.
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Post by Dino589 on Jan 16, 2010 1:41:45 GMT
Sorry, don't know anything about this at all. Sounds interesting though.
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