Color Patterns in Fish Larvae May Reveal Relationships Among Species?!
Source: ScienceDaily
Date: November 26, 2013
Website: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130724200609.htm
Apparently, we can tell what relationships fish have just by their skin color. Did that sound as weird as I thought it would? Exactly anyways, similarities in how different organisms look can indicate a close evolutionary relationship. A Smithsonian scientist has found that color patterns of different fish species
in the larval stage can be very similar, revealing a closer evolutionary
relationship than their adult forms would suggest. Many marine fish species spend their larval stage near the ocean's surface. They have to adjust to the environment, so fish in their larval stage that bear little to no resemblance to their adult counterparts. Carole Baldwin, a zoologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, examined more than 200 species of marine fishes in their larval stage, primarily from the western Caribbean. She found that in many cases larval color patterns of different species were very similar. For example, she noticed that adult mullets and the adult flying fish share a unique transformation of color pattern that supports the idea that they could be closely related.
I chose to talk about this article because it seemed interesting to me. It seemed interesting to me because this topic could not be any more crazier than it actually is. It's possible that all the fish we see could be related to each other in some way. They could look completely different when they become adults, but look exactly the same or similar to each other when they are still in the larval stage. That would mean that the fish in the picture above could all be brothers and sisters. They probably don't even know. All those fish up there could all be related to each other, and they don't even know because they look so different to each other. That is what is happening in this article.
What if we had never found out about this? What if we ignore that and continued on with our lives? I'll tell you what would happen. We would never have known about it and I wouldn't be sitting here, typing this up. I wouldn't have been shocked and this would be kind of boring for me. I would never know about this and I would have wrote about something boring for this. I would never have known that fish could be related to each other regardless of what they look like. You wouldn't know about it either. That is why I like looking at this stuff, so that I can learn new things that no one else would know and share them. Well, it looks like I'm all done with my ScraMS. Now I can go back to some other things I need to get done. Thank you for always reading my articles and I hope to see you reading the ones I make in the future. I'll see you later. Peace!
in the larval stage can be very similar, revealing a closer evolutionary
relationship than their adult forms would suggest. Many marine fish species spend their larval stage near the ocean's surface. They have to adjust to the environment, so fish in their larval stage that bear little to no resemblance to their adult counterparts. Carole Baldwin, a zoologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, examined more than 200 species of marine fishes in their larval stage, primarily from the western Caribbean. She found that in many cases larval color patterns of different species were very similar. For example, she noticed that adult mullets and the adult flying fish share a unique transformation of color pattern that supports the idea that they could be closely related.
I chose to talk about this article because it seemed interesting to me. It seemed interesting to me because this topic could not be any more crazier than it actually is. It's possible that all the fish we see could be related to each other in some way. They could look completely different when they become adults, but look exactly the same or similar to each other when they are still in the larval stage. That would mean that the fish in the picture above could all be brothers and sisters. They probably don't even know. All those fish up there could all be related to each other, and they don't even know because they look so different to each other. That is what is happening in this article.
What if we had never found out about this? What if we ignore that and continued on with our lives? I'll tell you what would happen. We would never have known about it and I wouldn't be sitting here, typing this up. I wouldn't have been shocked and this would be kind of boring for me. I would never know about this and I would have wrote about something boring for this. I would never have known that fish could be related to each other regardless of what they look like. You wouldn't know about it either. That is why I like looking at this stuff, so that I can learn new things that no one else would know and share them. Well, it looks like I'm all done with my ScraMS. Now I can go back to some other things I need to get done. Thank you for always reading my articles and I hope to see you reading the ones I make in the future. I'll see you later. Peace!