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Interesting but not personable

By jlynch on July 14, 2006.

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This one-pound lobster that was caught in Maine apparently is missing pigment on one half of its body. Quote at end of the story: "Lobsters are interesting but not personable."

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I assume this is caused by a coying error when the egg did its first division?

I have hazel eyes, except that my left eye is half hazel and half brown. Again, I assume that when that first eye cell did its first division, something broke along the way. And a cousin of my wife has blue eyes with one quarter of one eye hazel.

That's a beauty alright. I've seen a blue before, but never a 2-tone. There's a lucky crustacean!

Is it possible that this animal is a chimera? I know it was recently discovered that most brindle horses are chimeras, do you think that crustaceans can also have this odd genetic flaw?

From the linked article

The odds of this kind of mutation occurring are very rare - something like one in 50 million to 100 million, according to oceanarium staff. The chance of finding a blue lobster is far more common, at one in a million.