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Help me pick the next topic!

Since I'm a disorganised indecisive scatterbrain, how about you help me pick the next topic? Otherwise I start writing 10 posts in parallel and never finish any... (my drafts folder is massive...) I've set up a poll to the right --->

Also, additional suggestions definitely welcome and encouraged! As are random questions/comments/musings/criticisms/rants/etc. You guys need to comment more proliferously. Especially those whose blogs I plague with mine ^.^

Blue isopod time:

Found it in California, never seen a bluish-purple one before. I wonder if it's an allelic thing, or actually a separate species altogether...
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3 comments:

  1. Christopher TaylorAugust 5, 2009 at 1:28:00 AM PDT

    Ebriids and ellobiopsids are two options that occurred to me, but I think I'll propose a third - just why is everything about dinoflagellates just so *%&$ing wierd?

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  2. Jennifer FrazerAugust 5, 2009 at 8:54:00 AM PDT

    Love the blue isopod! Here in the Southern Rockies one of my favorite flowers is Penstemon whippleanus, the dusky penstemon. Most are a beautiful wine-purple, but growing right next to them you often find a whitish allelic variant. Mendel alert! Probably a mutation somewhere in the purple-producing machinery.

    And please. . . can one ever get enough of T C-S?

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  3. AnonymousMay 16, 2011 at 7:28:00 AM PDT

    It's neither... it's an infection with iridiovirus
    http://www.cabrillo.edu/~jcarothers/lab/notes/arthropods/index.html

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