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A ‘Devonian’ aquarium: Modern mutant fishes replicate creatures of ancient oceans – Phys.org
Zebrafish are a common aquarium species, of value to hobbyists and scientists alike. Researchers have now engineered an unusual change in them that has echoes of Jurassic Park—but looks alone are deceiving.
Zebrafish are a common aquarium species, of value to hobbyists and scientists alike. Researchers have now engineered an unusual change in them that has echoes of Jurassic Parkbut looks alone are deceiving.
A research team studying jaw evolution in the earliest known vertebratesfishes from around 400 million years agohave found that a single-gene mutation in the toe-sized zebrafish produced a surprising lookalike of species long extinct.
The phenomenon revealed in their experiments, called deve…
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