Tapetail, Bignose and Whalefish turn out to be the same fish(aquaticcommunity.com)
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Tapetail, Bignose and Whalefish turn out to be the same fish
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/195
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Working link to paper, http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/2/235
Maybe this is a dumb question...but didn't they ever do gene/dna testing on these fish before? No one realized they were the same species?
DNA sequencing technology became a lot more widespread and inexpensive in the past decade (around the time that this article was published).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing#Development_ini...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing#Development_ini...
Should have [2009] in the title.
This hasn't been discussed on HN before. [0] If you have any more recent updates on this topic we'd love to see them.
[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=tapetail&prefix=false&sort=byP...
[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=tapetail&prefix=false&sort=byP...
The convention is to add the year of publication to a title if the content is not current. It has nothing to do with whether it's been discussed before or not.
I'm fascinated by the ways in which the same DNA can cause widely different physical expressions, in response to sex, developmental stage, or even environmental conditions (e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust).
If you think that's interesting, you should look into sessile animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessility_(motility)
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