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by contingo 4y ago
But it's not a "hitherto conjectured form of symbiosis". It's just another example of facultative lichenization, which has already been observed in species quite widely scattered across the fungal kingdom. That to me doe
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by contingo 4y ago
I'm skeptical that this discovery amounts to a "new type of coexistence". Fungi that are facultatively lichenized (having growth forms that include or exclude algae) have been known about for a long time, as have various stag
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by contingo 4y ago
From the article: >The donated shoes that ended up in Indonesia have added to a flood of illegal second-hand clothing pouring into that developing country, according to a senior government official there, who said such cast-offs pose a p
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by contingo 4y ago
Many different groups of fish have independently evolved locomotion by "walking" on modified pectoral fins. One of my favorite examples are the bamboo sharks, among which are some pretty recently described species: https:/&#
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by contingo 4y ago
It's woefully wrong for something in the primary literature. Yes, I understood what information they were sloppily failing to be precise about. If I were refereeing this paper I'd insist on a correction.
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by contingo 4y ago
From the introduction, which starts by trying to give some wider taxonomic context: >The genus Ilex comprises about 450 species growing in the tropical regions of South America and Asia. Ilex trees are located exclusively in South Americ
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by contingo 4y ago
SALT_VERSE just uses still images generated by DALL•E-2 and Midjourney. They're animated using techniques that have already been around for a long time: panning around and zooming in and out of a larger frame, fake raster-to-3d effects
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by contingo 4y ago
The biological term "symbiosis", by itself, in the strict sense, doesn't imply a benefit for both parties, it just describes a persistent and physically close association between two species. Hence parasitism or commensalism
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by contingo 4y ago
Psilocybin-producing mushrooms are widely dispersed across the clade of all other true mushrooms and their genomes clearly show there is no great mystery about their evolutionary history or relationships to other fungi. Modern phylogenetics
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by contingo 5y ago
Tunicates evolved long before animals that you would recognize as typical vertebrates. In their free-swimming larval state, tunicates do have a "notochord", or nerve chord, running along their head-tail axis. This structure is a k
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by contingo 6y ago
OK, I looked at some piano roll layouts in DAWs, and found examples with equal spacing between semitones, you're right. I looked at some music mapped onto this layout. The layout allowed for speedy recognition of lone intervals and sim
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by contingo 6y ago
It makes sense in the context of tonal harmony. An octave is the interval between the 1st and 8th notes of a major or minor scale. I.e. a major or minor scale repeats itself (at double the frequency) every eight notes. A major third is the
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by contingo 6y ago
OK, I looked at some piano roll layouts in DAWs, and found examples with equal spacing between semitones, you're right. I looked at some music mapped onto this layout. The layout allowed for speedy recognition of lone intervals and sim
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by contingo 6y ago
I don't trust you. You're just used to thinking in terms of the piano keyboard. As I said before, the distance between two adjacent white keys on a piano roll could be a major second, or it could be a minor second. In other words
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by contingo 6y ago
A piano roll visualization gives a somewhat more immediate depiction of intervallic information. But it isn't absolutely proportionately spaced, it's mapped to keyboard topology. Two neighboring white keys could be a major or mino
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by contingo 6y ago
Were you implying that a different kind of everyday notation exists that could be a significant improvement on the traditional system? I understand that various alternative notations can give a clearer presentation of single aspects of musi
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by contingo 6y ago
Correct, DNA is just one element of a complete organismal informatics, you need vastly more than just the genome sequence to ressurect a species. Relatively simple microbes, or recently extinct mammals where you have a semi-plausible scheme
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by contingo 6y ago
In the past my research has overlapped a fair bit with alpha taxonomy. Actually, whimsically or unconventionally named species are fairly common. Here are three examples that come to mind. [1] Forget Twitter, when it comes to species litera
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by contingo 7y ago
Do you count orangutans as "local Malaysians"? In any case, the rainforest is certainly useful to all of the indigenous humans whose home and way of life are also being destroyed. You might find the rainforest "too dense to w
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by contingo 7y ago
There are many co-existing species concepts used in practice that are statistically rigorously defined, selected according to the biology of the lineage in question (e.g. it makes little sense to apply the same concept to both recombining a
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by contingo 8y ago
You evidently haven't encountered the biodynamic viticulture people, who are everywhere these days. They will tell you to buy a wine because its grapes were harvested when the stars were in a particular alignment and the moonlight a pa
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by contingo 8y ago
It's a fascination problem. Everything falls into place when what genuinely deeply interests you coincides with your work, with the source of your motivation to work, and with the source of your mental fitness to do the work. When I th
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by contingo 9y ago
As the article hints, the concept of an individual is a very slippery thing in filamentous fungi. A single hyphal network can contain genetic material from more than two parental spores, and while a bi-nucleate condition is typical (in a &q
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by contingo 9y ago
The 06-10-2010 version of this document (the linked one is 27-03-2009) is the one still bundled with the Blender source.
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by contingo 9y ago
It just means they're headed for extinction in the wild, but that some populations are maintained in captivity. The term 'domestication' would not normally be used in this case, because it relates to the selection of improvem
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by contingo 9y ago
It's a bit dated to characterize modern systematics as chiefly a battle between lumpers and splitters; the structures and schema being argued over are different in character from those that preoccupied Victorian naturalists. For some g
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by contingo 9y ago
Read my paragraph number two? If you have absolutely no information about what bit you, diagnostics look at habitat, bitemark characteristics, venom reaction, and of course serological tests / enzyme immunological assay can be conclusi
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by contingo 9y ago
Compare https://www.ventusky.com/?p=19.6;-77.9;4&l=wind&w=0xIAb9A9A
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by contingo 9y ago
It's a reach to imagine your scenario applies to snakebite emergencies generally. Copperheads are large, distinctive snakes, their nomenclature is stable and in the temperate zones where they live, there are a relatively limited number
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by contingo 9y ago
This whole discussion is somewhat moot as a real biologist would almost always write "species of octopus", singular.

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