tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post8128632313208155103..comments2024-03-28T00:36:36.460-07:00Comments on The Tree of Life: Tracing the evolutionary history of Sarah Palin: links to a parasitic nematode and the pathogenic fungus Botryotinia fuckeliana Jonathan Eisenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-28384192575052224922008-09-13T12:36:00.000-07:002008-09-13T12:36:00.000-07:00Karen - how about "An organism living in modern ti...Karen - how about "An organism living in modern times" or "An organism living in modern times that has not evolved much since it shared a common ancestor with parasitic nematodes"Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-61713074865720141382008-09-13T10:17:00.000-07:002008-09-13T10:17:00.000-07:00I would hardly call her a modern organism.I would hardly call her a modern organism.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04453589217454707828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-23292600537230191142008-09-12T07:21:00.000-07:002008-09-12T07:21:00.000-07:00Finally Mark. Finally someone saw that. I put th...Finally Mark. Finally someone saw that. I put that there on purpose hoping that some other bloggers would call me to task on it. But alas everyone kept focusing on "fuckeliana". Imagine that. Yes, indeed, as a modern organism SARAHPALIN cannot be ancestral to other modern organisms.Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-39750492445594219352008-09-12T06:40:00.000-07:002008-09-12T06:40:00.000-07:00Good stuff, I agree, and quite funny. I do have to...Good stuff, I agree, and quite funny. I do have to point out though that Sarah Palin, being an extant organism, is not "ancestral" to Brugia malayi. Instead, Sarah Palin and Brugia malayi descended from a common ancestor. I only point this out because we should get our evolutionary biology correct, and because it is perhaps even funnier. I wonder what the common ancestor looked like?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05226679106947577441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-85301469140449410532008-09-11T12:49:00.000-07:002008-09-11T12:49:00.000-07:00Trying to just report the facts here Shawna (with ...Trying to just report the facts here Shawna (with a little commentary here and there). If I could have searched using Obama I would have but he has letters in his full name that I could not use.Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-36803769296518867262008-09-11T12:21:00.000-07:002008-09-11T12:21:00.000-07:00*sigh* I can't wait to see the McCain attack ad ab...*sigh* I can't wait to see the McCain attack ad about liberal anti-palin bias in evolutionists that comes from this post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-37749163974682559872008-09-11T05:18:00.000-07:002008-09-11T05:18:00.000-07:00Awesome, just awesome! Thanks!Awesome, just awesome! Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-16160122507629670742008-09-07T16:53:00.000-07:002008-09-07T16:53:00.000-07:00Thankfully, someone changed the name to fuckeliana...Thankfully, someone changed the name to fuckeliana. Or my blog would not have gotten as much attention. I think given Palin's image, she is more likely to be a beer drinker than a wine drinker (nothing against her personally at all -- I am more on the beer than wine side of things too). And despite really not liking her politics, I cannot help liking some aspects of Palin's persona. Maybe her microbial connection is what does it, given that I still generally refuse to study "macrobes" and don;t like a lot of them ;-)Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-84787124520261039482008-09-07T16:36:00.000-07:002008-09-07T16:36:00.000-07:00Botryotinia fuckeliana (Botrytis cinerea) is a spo...Botryotinia fuckeliana (Botrytis cinerea) is a spoilage agent for wine grapes and also purposely encouraged to generate the Noble rot in the production of grapes for Sauterne style wines. Given her political orientation I can't figure out if this revelation means she is inherently for, or against, alcohol consumption. Maybe she's a pit bull with lipstick who likes dessert wines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-47982798966137670322008-09-07T09:19:00.000-07:002008-09-07T09:19:00.000-07:00I may write a new post on this --- but the best bl...I may write a new post on this --- but the best blast hit for "MCCAINPALIN" is ....<BR/><BR/>>gb|ACE82429.1| polyprotein [Hepatitis C virus subtype 1a]<BR/>Length=3011<BR/><BR/> Score = 26.1 bits (54), Expect = 339<BR/> Identities = 8/10 (80%), Positives = 9/10 (90%), Gaps = 1/10 (10%)<BR/><BR/>_____Query 1 MCCAINPALI 10<BR/>____________MC AI+PALI<BR/>___Sbjct 877 MC-AIHPALI 885Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-11349675447665628442008-09-06T18:12:00.000-07:002008-09-06T18:12:00.000-07:00I think we may have to redefine "palindromic" as "...I think we may have to redefine "palindromic" as "sequences that are indicative of very ancestral states" or something like thatJonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-42741566892609270352008-09-06T18:00:00.000-07:002008-09-06T18:00:00.000-07:00Any palindromic sequences?Any palindromic sequences?Bora Zivkovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10763808287050592569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-59408611794492625082008-09-06T17:54:00.000-07:002008-09-06T17:54:00.000-07:00I have to admit I sat in my chair and sniggered fo...I have to admit I sat in my chair and sniggered for half and hour after reading this. I then linked anyone I knew who was online at the time...no one else got it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-44666977207233311442008-09-06T17:48:00.000-07:002008-09-06T17:48:00.000-07:00Priceless!!! I think this should become standard ...Priceless!!! I think this should become standard practice for anyone standing for office. In fact, lets propose that anyone with non-standard names come up with an appropriate spelling of their choice so that such an analysis can be performed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-11820128469992222492008-09-06T16:59:00.000-07:002008-09-06T16:59:00.000-07:00Unbelievable. Sarah Palin is closely related to B...Unbelievable. Sarah Palin is closely related to B. fukeliana? Too funny to be made up.<BR/><BR/>Did you search her kids' names to see if they are related to her? Maybe they aren't...Steven Salzberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16549957293973146438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-89505032194009813402008-09-06T16:29:00.000-07:002008-09-06T16:29:00.000-07:00When I was a PhD student, my advisor was to speak ...When I was a PhD student, my advisor was to speak of her work at a meeting of Israeli and Palestinian scientists & students. As the audience was very broad, the talks were to be very non-specific. So what's a bioinformatics lab to do? We decided it would be fun to look for PEACE in SwissProt. The top hit was... wait for it... the receptor for sperm coat protein in the human zona pellucida. The zona pellucida is the outer membrane of the oocyte.<BR/><BR/>Make love, not war!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-82979276086070700282008-09-06T16:23:00.000-07:002008-09-06T16:23:00.000-07:00I can't believe I missed that. She IS condescendi...I can't believe I missed that. She IS condescending.Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-55808106049487357462008-09-06T16:19:00.000-07:002008-09-06T16:19:00.000-07:00Clearly we can not vote into office someone who ma...Clearly we can not vote into office someone who may have the power to regulate chromosomal condensation. Especially when she is already under investigation for abuse of power.Pamela Ronaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905736049638342587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-62142322317374489862008-09-06T15:02:00.000-07:002008-09-06T15:02:00.000-07:00You just cannot make this stuff upYou just cannot make this stuff upJonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-70386572599262889382008-09-06T14:56:00.000-07:002008-09-06T14:56:00.000-07:00Wait wait wait!In Parabacterioides merdae, the spe...Wait wait wait!<BR/><BR/>In Parabacterioides merdae, the species name 'merdae' came from the french word 'merde', which is… crap (basically, the place in which you find this bacteria…)<BR/><BR/>Sequence alignment is so powerful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-88970635787912654952008-09-06T14:41:00.000-07:002008-09-06T14:41:00.000-07:00That is fantastic! Widely forwarded already...That is fantastic! Widely forwarded already...Adam Ratnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06784276172650948026noreply@blogger.com