Unlocking Your Inner Fish: Human DNA Traced Back to Marine Origins


	Unlocking Your Inner Fish: Human DNA Traced Back to Marine Origins

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6-29-2009 10:32 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2ee46089-9848-4265-88e1-cbc3f3cc9780/BD525B16-E361-4C67-ACAB-EC1D154A1BAF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/06/have-you-ever-felt-like-youre-really-a-fish-that-you-love-the--water-you-want-to-swim-forever-that-you-should-don-an-artif.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/06/have-you-ever-felt-like-youre-really-a-fish-that-you-love-the--water-you-want-to-swim-forever-that-you-should-don-an-artif.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/06/have-you-ever-felt-like-youre-really-a-fish-that-you-love-the--water-you-want-to-swim-forever-that-you-should-don-an-artif.html"><P><A href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef011570870845970c-pi"><IMG src="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef011570870845970c-500wi" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bf7f753ef011570870845970c" alt="Dolphins" /></A> Have you ever felt like you're really a fish?  That you love the
water, you want to swim forever, that you should don an artificial tail
and eat kelp for the rest of your life?  Then congratulations, you're
crazy.  But by coincidence some of your psycho-cells agree with you,
hiding gene expression patterns that date back to the fish and probably
beyond.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/06/have-you-ever-felt-like-youre-really-a-fish-that-you-love-the--water-you-want-to-swim-forever-that-you-should-don-an-artif.html">DNA is the most complicated system you'll ever use.  Your genes are
a huge collection of protein-encoding patterns: some build materials
required for organs and tissues, but the vast majority of the genes are
designed only to control other genes</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/06/have-you-ever-felt-like-youre-really-a-fish-that-you-love-the--water-you-want-to-swim-forever-that-you-should-don-an-artif.html">Toronto
based Professor Hughes and colleagues have traced thousands of genes
across tens of species as far afield as people, poultry and
pufferfish</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/06/have-you-ever-felt-like-youre-really-a-fish-that-you-love-the--water-you-want-to-swim-forever-that-you-should-don-an-artif.html">found that while the actual genes have evolved beyond
(almost) all recognition, as you may notice from your inability to
expand to twice your normal size as a panic reaction, the actual
profiles of gene expression in critical organs are extremely similar</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BD525B16-E361-4C67-ACAB-EC1D154A1BAF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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