hell yea, brother

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• Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How the fuck do you accidentally create a fish hybrid

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  • KnitWit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Uh, my time to shine? Back in grad school I used to clone paddlefish (gynogenesis) by heat shocking a freshly fertilized paddlefish egg at the right time so that the egg is activated but the males dna is never incorporated. Paddlefish and sturgeon, while looking totally different, are actually fairly closely related (they had a common ancestor like 200 mya) and so the chemical reactions take place to get everything going. But they are also distinct enough that if the timing isn’t right and the father’s dna accidentally gets incorporated, they create these hybrids. The hybrids are important because its the only way to identify males, which this whole process is designed to exclude. The reason you’d want to do this is the production of caviar in which males are of no value and cannot be easily identified for years.

    Now, I was in Kentucky, and we were breeding paddlefish (the colbert report had a segment on ‘kentucky tuna’ that the economics professor terribly tried to promote if you can find it) for the non-existent paddlefish caviar market as opposed to breeding sturgeon like they did in this study, but its the same general principle at play. The inly real difference is that unlike these hybrids that could apparently grow to juvenile or adult status, the paddlefish mother hybrids were very much dead within a week of hatching and were obviously deformed at hatching.

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  • RusAD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t quote me on that, but as far as I understand it, the scientists needed a control group for some experiment in breeding one of those species of fish, so they paired it with a different species, so far removed evolutionarily that the scientists believed there’s 0% chance of hybridization. Like there’s 0% chance of getting a hybrid of a platypus and a polar bear, for example. But then, against all odds and expectations, these two species of fish have produced a hybrid.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Life, uh, finds a way

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    • musubibreakfast@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The Polar Platybear has a bill, is amphibious, venomous too, with razor sharp claws, stands 10 feet tall and weighs about 1300 pounds.

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    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Evolution: hold my beer.

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  • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Alcohol and loneliness are a bad mix. Don’t judge.

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  • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well obviously you try to fuck the fish first, but it doesn’t give anything so you try the next best thing.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Letting the fish fuck you?

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bad labeling and artificial insemination I’d have to assume.

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The sturddlefish is a hybrid of the American paddlefish and the Russian sturgeon

  Should be called “MAGA”.

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  • RavindraNemandi@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How dare you slander my boy

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What did the fish do to deserve that? … I mean, I get the joke, but rude! xP

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