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To: Ilaine who wrote (52343)6/16/2000 10:21:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
I didn't know any of that! Thanks.
...I wonder by what mechanism the puffer genome got trimmed down to just the good stuff. That has to be one of the Big Questions of current genetics. Why does one species do fine with a whole truckful of apparent junk DNA, and why did another experience such efficient pruning?