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0 points_a_a_a_3y ago0 comments

"it is not that surprising"

Aw lord, there's always one isn't there.

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msrenee3y ago· 2 in thread

There have been attempts at hybridization between sturgeon and paddlefish in the past. Paddlefish are the most closely related extant species to the sturgeons, so while it's surprising, it's not exactly mind-blowing. It's not like they hybridized a sturgeon with a carp.

_a_a_a_OP3y ago

> There have been attempts at hybridization between sturgeon and paddlefish in the past

ref?

> 's not exactly mind-blowing

disagree

msrenee3y ago

>“The case with myself and others who have taken sturgeon from our waters and tried to make the hybrid is we get nothing. It does not develop,” Semmens said. “Maybe the egg will start to develop, but it does not complete development. It does not hatch. These guys over in Hungary don’t have the same species of sturgeon to work with that we do. We have the shovelnose sturgeon. They have Russian sturgeon. It turns out there are some differences there, and that was important.” [0]

>disagree

Disagree.

[0] - https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2020/08/13/ksu-...

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