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The article touches on this a little bit, I think. Eve's eggs were harvested, incubated (though it turns out only the first 30 were fertile) and became the fou
by uiri 12y ago
The article touches on this a little bit, I think.
Eve's eggs were harvested, incubated (though it turns out only the first 30 were fertile) and became the foundation of the zoo's new population of walking sticks.
I am not a real biologist, but I suspect it is some combination of the factors you suggest and that their genome may be simple enough that most defects make the eggs nonviable.
- ufo 12y agoInsects also have complex genomes. The egg fertility most likely has to do with other issues (differences between the natural habitat and captivity, maybe there is a natural tendency for not all eggs to be fertile, etc)
- jschwartzi 12y agoI wonder if the infertile eggs are a sort of decoy? Those eggs look like they might be large enough to make an attractive meal for a bird.
- ufo 12y agoNature is complicated. Not everything needs to have an adaptionist explanation.