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Except glowing fishes might have mating advantage and it it probably also a dominant gene. We don't know and that should give us room for pause.
by freemint 5y ago
Except glowing fishes might have mating advantage and it it probably also a dominant gene. We don't know and that should give us room for pause.
- hadlock 5y agoBut before that, they need to survive until sexual maturity, which is well north of one year for most fish. They're not like mice which can reproduce inside of a month or three.
- _Microft 5y agoWikipedia says that zebrafish have a generation time of 3 month and the article says that the glowing ones reproduce even earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebrafish#Reproduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebrafish#Reproduction
- NicoJuicy 5y agoYou can't mate or produce offspring if you're eaten.
- freemint 5y agoThe fact that we found them says they are probably not gonna be eaten to extinction