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Circus of the Spineless #5: Wordless edition

Category: Carnivals • Organisms • Science
Posted on: January 29, 2006 7:29 AM, by PZ Myers

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The Circus of the Spineless from The House
The latest edition of the wonderful invertebrate carnival, Circus of the Spineless is presented in pictures over at the always entertaining Pharyngula. If you've never visited Prof. P.Z. Myers' excellent blog, take some time to explore it at it's new Read More
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Posted by: wcamps | January 29, 2006 8:02 AM

Dr. Myers,

My first post here (sorry to be a lurker), but of all the great spineless ones on this post, my favorite is the romanesco cabbage, since it's the one I regularly eat. Are there other edibles here? Can you elighten me?

Posted by: wcamps | January 29, 2006 8:05 AM

er... ENlighten. I even previewed that one. Ugh.

Posted by: PZ Myers | January 29, 2006 8:37 AM

I've eaten less than a third of the organisms shown here (in a general sense...I haven't eaten fire ants, but have had ants), but who knows? Maybe they're all edible!

I'm going to have to try serving up a slice of a gall to the family...maybe I'll tell them it's a pancake.

Posted by: Torris | January 29, 2006 8:38 AM

wcamps - What does romanesco cabbage taste like?

Posted by: g | January 29, 2006 9:22 AM

A sea urchin? Spineless? Um ...

Posted by: coturnix | January 29, 2006 9:26 AM

Oooh - I love the concept! Pretty pictures. Now I have to go read all this stuff!

Posted by: coturnix | January 29, 2006 9:47 AM

Oh, the Uropetala image links to Collembola post....

Posted by: wcamps | January 29, 2006 9:54 AM

Romanesco cabbage tastes very close to cauliflower. I bet you thought I would say it tastes like chicken...

Posted by: PZ Myers | January 29, 2006 9:54 AM

Yep, same article. Both pictures are there in greater glory...I just liked them both.

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Posted by: Moment of Science | January 29, 2006 9:58 AM

That is a magnificient Crown Gall! Agrobacterium is such an amazing orgnanism, it had to be intelligently designed it just had to... What good would a Ti plasmid be be without every one of the proteins produced by the vir genes? If you take out one protein the whole system fails, it must have been constructed as an entire biochemical pathway all put in place at once. Like a molecular machine, if you will.

I kid, I kid.

But seriously, where the heck did that thing come from?

I'm going to have to go with some kind of viral horizontal gene transfer to bacteria myself.

#11

Posted by: Krauze | January 29, 2006 11:32 AM

Hi PZ,

You said that non-Metazoan entries would get a "honored category of their own". Will they appear in a separate post?

#12

Posted by: BruceH | January 30, 2006 10:53 AM

Hey, PZ,

Looks like you have room for one more.

#13