Jump Starting Evolution

Great new blog on evolutionary biology, The Wild Side. Actually, the resumption of an earlier one.

Today's post is about how to breed Bluefin Tuna in a Mackerel mom.

And for those of us who worry about basic sexuality, it turns out that germ cells and even spermatogona -- which are the germ cells developed a bit further down the road of complexity -- will turn into ovaries if implanted in a female and continue being male if implanted in a male.

All of which shows that the basic genetic drivers are the same even after many millions of years of separate evolution. But, read on . . .