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    Parthenogenesis | Virgin Shark Births are an Amazing Survival Strategy

    In relative recent history, human scientists have discovered that Mother Nature can be a tricky old lady.  One of the mind blowing details of natural history that has revealed itself  is a phenomenon known as “parthenogenesis”.  This process is a part of “apomixis”, which loosely means replacement of the normal sexual reproduction by asexual reproduction–without [...]

    February 16, 2010
    | Jeremy Maneyapanda | reef news | Tags: | Add a Comment

    World’s Largest Marine Reserve Created by… Britain?!

    Well, not just yet, but steps are being taken to attempt so. A coalition of conservationists, spanning nine conservation organizations, has appealed to the British public to urge Prime Minister Gordon Brown to make the Chagos Archipelago a full no-take marine reserve, which would make it the largest protected marine area on Earth. The Chagos [...]

    February 1, 2010
    | Jeremy Maneyapanda | reef news | Tags: | 2 Comments

    Taxonomic Mixup Leaves the Flapper Skate on Edge of Extinction

    While the jury is still out regarding the “necessity” of taxonomy in our microcosm of this hobby, it obviously plays a role in the academic field of science. However, recently it reared its head into the world of conservation, and sadly, not for the better. creative commons : eol Ichthyologists frequently use a method known [...]

    January 27, 2010
    | Jeremy Maneyapanda | fish, reef news | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments

    Do you Confer? What Cf. Means and How It’s Used

    We’d like to welcome Jeremy Maneyapanda to the GBD team with his first article on aquaria related nomenclature. For some background on Mr. Maneyapanda, he has BS in Biological Sciences in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics from Cornell University. This background and his love of marine life found him deeply enveloped in the marine hobby in [...]

    January 21, 2010
    | Jeremy Maneyapanda | featured, fish, misc | Tags: , , | 17 Comments