Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Puffer fish

Tetraodon nigroviridis aka Puffer fish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraodon_nigroviridis

Tetraodon nigroviridis also has some degree of value as a lab animal, in particular in the field of genetics, because it has the same number of genes as human beings but in a genome about one-tenth the size

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