Soon we will be free of this menace, next on the agenda the two legged female of a so far undisclosed species and procreation by cloning and male abdominal incubation.
viva la penisia.
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Females to be wiped out
From: By Annabelle McDonald
June 06, 2006
SCIENTISTS hoping to stop the inexorable march of the cane toad are working on a gene that would ensure all the pest's offspring are male - wiping out future egg-laying mothers.
The University of Queensland's Peter Koopman has been developing a "daughterless gene" that would limit the toad's population by eradicating females, which are able to lay tens of thousands of eggs at time.
"I am hoping to engineer a strain of toads where the male offspring stay male and the female offspring become male," Professor Koopman said at yesterday's national cane toad conference in Brisbane.
"The expansion of the cane toad population is dependent on the number of females, because they lay between 7000 and 30,000 eggs, so this would limit the population.
"It is far safer than other strategies. If you release a virus, there is always the possibility that can go across species and start knocking out your green tree frogs. This, however, is absolutely species-specific."
The conference heard that the spread of the despised toad across the Top End and down the east coast threatened to devastate the Kakadu national park and the fragile Murray-Darling river system.
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Experts said tens of millions of toads thrived in Queensland, the Northern Territory and NSW, with the plague moving west at about 60km a year and south at 4km a year.
"Now the cane toads are about 160km short of the West Australian border," Frogwatch co-ordinator Graeme Sawyer said. "My guess is in about two years they will cross."
Mr Sawyer said the toads had proved to be more adaptable to arid and cold conditions than scientists expected, after being found in places such as Longreach in central Queensland and the Border Ranges in NSW.
Originally posted by moweutDo you have a link for the article.......
Soon we will be free of this menace, next on the agenda the two legged female of a so far undisclosed species and procreation by cloning and male abdominal incubation.
viva la penisia.
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Females to be wiped out
From: By Annabelle McDonald
June 06, 2006
SCIENTISTS hoping to stop the inexorable march of the can ...[text shortened]... d in places such as Longreach in central Queensland and the Border Ranges in NSW.
Anything to do with an SRY gene?
Originally posted by timebombtedsalacious articles like this are banned where I am so i cant give the direct link.
Do you have a link for the article.......
Anything to do with an SRY gene?
but here is the proxy link:
http://www.phproxy.org/proxy.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uZXdzLmNvbS5hdS9zdG9yeS8wLDEwMTE3LDE5Mzc5NjcwLTEzNzYyLDAwLmh0bWw%3D
nothing about SRY in the article.