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A fish has its head above water and is talking to a human standing on a jetty. It tells the person, "It turns out I've been editing both copy of copy of gene v3 (newest)(2) and copy of copy of gene v3(final)(2) so now I can't delete either one." The human says, "You have got to stop doing this." The fish replies, "It's fine, I'll just buy more storage." The caption reads, "Why lungfish have such enormous genomes."

This is the best explanation I've ever seen for lungfish genome sizes
https://xkcd.com/3064/
#XKCD #Genomes #MolecularEvolution #lungfish

These lyrics are resonating with me now. If anyone wants a peek and a listen to understand why Lungfish is one of my all-time favorite bands, with Daniel Higgs as preeminent philosopher/poet, I'd like to extend an invitation:
#lungfish #LungfishMusic
https://youtu.be/cbECD-K7YUs?si=ip_vUj4uSUI11jTK

Lyrics to Hear The Children Sing, by Lungfish (1/3)

Lyrics to Hear The Children Sing, by Lungfish (2/3)

Lyrics to Hear The Children Sing, by Lungfish (3/3)

Lungfish – Blue Sky
[from «Necrophones», 2000]

https://lungfish.bandcamp.com/track/blue-sky

#FediRadio #AltRock #Lungfish

Recycling facility used as alleged illegal dump for thousands of tonnes of toxic waste on Fraser Coast

"There are multiple threatened species of turtles and fish living in that part of the Mary River. Toxic waste could be transported down the river channel into the estuary in the coastal zone."
#RamsarConvention #rivers #MaryRiver #turtles #lungfish #platypus #dumping #waste #toxins #ThreatenedSpecies #BushProperties #FraserCoast #WasteManagement

Genes for life on land evolved earlier in fish.
Hidden genetic pathways behind land-water transition are found in living fish

Absolutely fascinating! ⬇️🐟🐸🐈‍⬛🏋🏻

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.371.6530.658

#science #evolution #lungfish #genesequencing

Whoa! 30 times BIGGER than the human genome?

https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/largest-animal-genome-sequenced-and-just-1-chromosome-is-the-size-of-the-entire-human-genome

#genetics #genome #lungfish #science

The #fish with the #genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced
Every 10 million years, #lungfish have added a human genome's worth of #junkDNA.
Getting some perspective on their evolutionary history has proven difficult because they have the largest #genomes known in animals, with the South American lungfish genome containing over 90 billion base pairs. That's 30 times the amount of #DNA we have.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/the-fish-with-the-genome-30-times-larger-than-ours-gets-sequenced/

The world's largest animal genome https://phys.org/news/2024-08-international-team-sequence-world-largest.html

The genomes of all lungfish inform on genome expansion and tetrapod #evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07830-1

With over 90 gigabases, the DNA of the South American #fish is the largest of all #animal #genomes and more than twice as large as the genome of the previous record holder, the Australian #lungfish. 18 of the 19 chromosomes are each individually larger than the entire human #genome.

International team sequence the world's largest #animal #genome: Data help explain #tetrapod #evolution.

#lungfish #Lepidosiren #90_gigabases

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-international-team-sequence-world-largest.html

#Fossil hunter discovers new species of 210-million-year-old lungfish https://phys.org/news/2024-08-fossil-hunter-species-million-year.html

A new #lungfish from the Upper #Triassic of the Mid-#Zambezi Basin, #Zimbabwe https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2365391

This is a time in history when the rise of the #dinosaurs was starting, and bony #fish were diversifying.

Do we have any Lungfish fans here in the Fedi?
They were/are one of my favorite bands of all time. I probably saw them at least 10 times between about '94 and '05, and they were perhaps equally as influential in the music I was making 20 or so years ago as were the Grateful Dead
Here they are in Lancaster PA in their late period, for those familiar and unfamiliar. Their last US show was in 2005 in Baltimore. (Also on YT)
https://youtu.be/h1Bl51yYhF0?si=UY2mxvVuL9GYQe3S

#Lungfish #LungfishMusic

#Lungfish – Pass And Stow 1994 on #DischordRecords 2010 remastered reissue cd
http://lungfish.bandcamp.com/album/pass-and-stow

#BonniePrinceBilly, #NathanSalsburg, #TylerTrotter – Hear The Children Sing & The Evidence cd on #NoQuarter 2024
"When Nathan Salsburg’s daughter Talya was a baby, he often sang her to sleep in a rocking chair. At one point, he remembered a song he had taught himself as a teenager: "The Evidence" by #Lungfish. He realized he could play the guitar part with one hand, singing while holding Talya in his other arm. The original version is only 5 minutes long here it's 21"
http://nathansalsburg.bandcamp.com/album/hear-the-children-sing-the-evidence

#Zimbabwe’s new #dinosaur discovery: inside the find https://theconversation.com/zimbabwes-new-dinosaur-discovery-inside-the-find-231827 paper: https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app011002023.html

"From the houseboat, we used small boats to reach shore and to navigate the sinuous inlets heading inland... we quickly found new material, including the teeth, jaw bones and armour plates of a crocodile-like aquatic predator called a #phytosaur... We also found #lungfish teeth and #dinosaur bones... these #fossils were deposited in an ancient freshwater #swamp"

simple black and white drawing of a long-necked dinosaur

“The two album-side-long covers find a weirding place, somewhere between transfixing and trance-like. The effect is more magical and peculiar than any of those adjectives can suggest,” writes Jonathan Shaw. https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/753103352086265856/bonnie-prince-billy-nathan-salsburg-tyler #music #bonnieprincebilly #lungfish