Dahlia
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Another gorgeous image for you to enjoy, courtesy of a talented and generous photographer!
Spontaneous Parthenogenesis
the buzz in the blogosphere
The Journal of Fish Biology reported Friday that a baby blacktip shark born in a Virginia aquarium was the product of a virgin birth, otherwise known as parthenogenesis. ScienceBlogger Sheril Kirshenbaum wrote that DNA fingerprinting methods showed the sharkling only had genetic material from the mother shark. ScienceBlogger Ed Yong also wrote about how this phenomenon has been previously documented in komodo dragons.
YA Virgin Birth
10.10.2008 · Greg Laden
...Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark. In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female Atlantic blacktip shark in...
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We need the ease of model building to be such that pretty much any scientist can build, test, discard, and connect models as easily as writing Facebook applications.
John Wilbanks · Welcome to Common Knowledge · October 8, 2008
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