Have you ever felt like you're really a fish? That you love the
water, you want to swim forever, that you should don an artificial tail
and eat kelp for the rest of your life? Then congratulations, you're
crazy. But by coincidence some of your psycho-cells agree with you,
hiding gene expression patterns that date back to the fish and probably
beyond.
DNA is the most complicated system you'll ever use. Your genes are
a huge collection of protein-encoding patterns: some build materials
required for organs and tissues, but the vast majority of the genes are
designed only to control other genes
Toronto
based Professor Hughes and colleagues have traced thousands of genes
across tens of species as far afield as people, poultry and
pufferfish
found that while the actual genes have evolved beyond
(almost) all recognition, as you may notice from your inability to
expand to twice your normal size as a panic reaction, the actual
profiles of gene expression in critical organs are extremely similar
clipped from: www.dailygalaxy.com