Undersea mystery: seahorse genetic secrets unveiled
WASHINGTON: Scientists have unlocked some of the genetic secrets of the weird and wondrous seahorse including its exotic eccentricity of male pregnancy.
Researchers said they have sequenced the genome of a seahorse species for the first time and identified the genetic underpinning for certain peculiarities in this equine-looking fish group that inhabits coastal waters around the world.
Seahorses boast a host of oddities.
Males, not females, carry and give birth to babies.
They swim upright, not horizontally.…