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 lisabal rated 13 months ago -
From the page: "Scientists have discovered copies of the genome of the Wolbachia bacterium lurking within the genetic code of fruit flies, wasps and nematode worms. So ingrained are the bacteria's genes that they appear to have biological roles within the host animal.
The findings hav...
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- lisabal rated 13 months ago
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From the page: "Scientists have discovered copies of the genome of the Wolbachia bacterium lurking within the genetic code of fruit flies, wasps and nematode worms. So ingrained are the bacteria's genes that they appear to have biological roles within the host animal.
The findings have important implications for evolution, as they show that genes can transfer from bacteria to unrelated multicellular organisms and take on new functions much more readily than was supposed previously."
An interesting discovery, which may give insights into some of the leaps in evolution. It dovetails well with Darwinism and should not give rise to criticisms of his theories. Always feel a bit sad these clever people had to leave off where they were up to, as there body and current technology failed them.
There are several interesting comments in the SU review section of this page, one in particular that I appreciated was the comment by stumbler johnnyis who pointed out the growing and futile obsession with attempting to remove bacteria from our lives.
As we are discovering nature is so much more powerful than we mere humans and there are so many things that we have yet to understand.
Stumbled this in the pages of perry2801
Photo is from another website The Bordenstein Lab
- Orangerules907 rated 14 months ago
- I thought i was reading something out of metroid when i read this.
- johnnyis rated 14 months ago
- Hmmm, this brings to mind Bruce Sterling's "Tomorrow Now..." If I recall there was a good bit in that book about bacteria being likened to little DNA tanker cars that quite easily insert their DNA in organisms, or otherwise alter genetic structures quickly and easily. Even this article though is titled with "The Bacterial Invader..." making bacteria out to be big ooooh scary, because it's not something that is entirely in our control, and if we had our way we'd sanitize the life out of everything.
Maybe it's time we made peace with bacteria, realized it keeps us alive, and tried to use its unique characteristics to our advantage. Seems like tailored bacteria could make quite the delivery vehicle for gene therapy perhaps... Maybe we could change the article title to "The Bacterial Healer..."
- john77075 rated 14 months ago
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If the bacteria has intelligence, we have intelligent design, hahahaha
- shiftplus rated 14 months ago
- "The world's most successful bacterial parasite has effectively become a part of at least 11 different animals by writing its entire genetic code into theirs, according to research that sheds important light on evolution." Wow, is this neo-Darwinists finally admitting that mechanisms for evolution exist other than random mutation? And in the Times as well! A happy day.
- wendyyao rated 14 months ago
- From the page: "Scientists have discovered copies of the genome of the Wolbachia bacterium lurking within the genetic code of fruit flies, wasps and nematode worms. So ingrained are the bacteriaâ€s genes that they appear to have biological roles within the host animal."
- JesseMat rated 14 months ago
- From the page: "Scientists have discovered copies of the genome of the Wolbachia bacterium lurking within the genetic code of fruit flies, wasps and nematode worms. So ingrained are the bacteria's genes that they appear to have biological roles within the host animal."Everything is everything
- perry2801 rated 14 months ago
- The bacterial invader that rewrites genes
There are implications for evolution in findings on a process that may be more common than thought
The world's most successful bacterial parasite has effectively become a part of at least 11 different animals by writing its entire genetic code into theirs, according to research that sheds important light on evolution.
The findings have important implications for evolution, as they show that genes can transfer from bacteria to unrelated multicellular organisms and take on new functions much more readily than was supposed previously.
This study establishes the widespread occurrence and high frequency of a process that we would have dismissed as science fiction until just a few years ago. This is stunning evidence for increased frequency of gene transfer.
- paizleigh rated 14 months ago
- From the page: "The worldâ€s most successful bacterial parasite has effectively become a part of at least 11 different animals by writing its entire genetic code into theirs, according to research that sheds important light on evolution.
Scientists have discovered copies of the genome of the Wolbachia bacterium lurking within the genetic code of fruit flies, wasps and nematode worms. So ingrained are the bacteriaâ€s genes that they appear to have biological roles within the host animal.
The findings have important implications for evolution, as they show that genes can transfer from bacteria to unrelated multicellular organisms and take on new functions much more readily than was supposed previously."
- Markeda01 rated 14 months ago
- What is this? No Borg reference? No "resistance is futile" quips?I am ashamed at all of the geeks and nerds who have read this article!That being said, this is a very interesting article on the Wolbachia bacterium, which has been found to imprint its genetic code into the genetic makeup of numerous types of invertebrates.It offers a little bit of thought into how something such as this (a process similar to what mitochondria and chloroplasts have done in the past) may have sped up evolution and altered the course it was taking.My only complaints are that there are no links referencing other articles on it, but considering it seems to be a new find, I am sure other articles and studies will be made before long.Definitely something to look deeper into!
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