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- A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus
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- Aging in a Long-Lived Clonal Tree Sarah Otto
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Category Archives: cows
Are cows an endangered species?
Last march I went to a meeting at UCLA called Evolutionary Change in Human-altered Environments – an international summit. The meeting attendees consisted of a mix of your regular academic researchers and government official, policy and decision makers. It was … Continue reading
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Foot-and-mouth disease is back in the UK
DEFRA just released a news bulletin confirming that foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has been diagnosed in the UK again and a few minutes ago BBC picked up the story. All livestock on the infected premises have been culled. A nationwide ban … Continue reading
Posted in cows, epidemiology, FMD, foot-and-mouth disease, livestock
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Ray “The Ratfish” Troll rocks
Ever heard of Christmas in July? Well I got my shipment of Ray Troll shirts today and (at least for me) that beats Christmas. I got some old goodies like the “Its never to late to mutate” with Darwin cruising … Continue reading
Posted in cows, evolution, Ray Troll
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Cows from space
Now this is really freaky and grotesquely fascinating at the same time. Those white dots are… individual cows as seen on a Google maps satellite image of a California feedlot. No wonder FMD is of such concern to the livestock … Continue reading
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