That may be but it is not exactly what I was getting atOriginally Posted by WingedWolfPsion
I was more trying to say: "I know that bringing up the fact that I hold a PhD is going to sound arrogant but that is not my intent. I just want to explain that I do have an understanding of what is being talked about because it is something I have first hand experience with."
Not: "All worship me, I have a PhD!!"
Does that make sense?
Yes, going back and reading over it my intent was not as clear as I thought I was. My apologies on that.I did think you were saying it was necessary to map out the genome first.
Undoubtedly you are right that any work being done currently is more than likely to be crash and bash style knock-ins. Which means that any glo-balls put out by this group will likely express full body glow. And why you would use a ball for that experiment I do not know as I would think there are plenty of other smaller, faster maturing snakes you could iron out the methodologies on. But hey, it isn't my money/time so...I do have doubts that cutting-edge tech will be applied to develop these ball pythons, as they implied they were already working on it.
Personally, if I were going to do it I would go with next-gen technologies. Sequence the genome, find the pattern specific expression genes and work my inserts there. I think a snake expressing the fluorescence in a patter dependent manner would beat one that has the glow wash over its whole body. But maybe that is just me...
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