... the eggs. It would be interesting to know what the TTX concentrations in Lagocephalus milt is. The liver still seems incidental to me. The liver collects toxin to protect the pufferfish from the toxin. There is no extra protection from predators by a poisoned liver. In retrospect, I think I have an alternative explanation, esp considering the problem of the Lagocephalus ...

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... How does the poison of a pufferfish protect the pufferfish or its closest kin? Why is...liver and ovaries? The poison of a pufferfish concentrates in its liver and its ovaries...if the predator gets that far then the pufferfish is clearly dead. Whether the animal dies, ... are not in themselves adaptive from the pufferfish point of view. Just the bacteria. It'...

...actually be a form of altruism. Pufferfish have three social behaviors that may..., provided he survives. If one pufferfish gets eaten gets eaten, especially his..., if the predator learns the pufferfish is unpalatable that applies even more...a school. The eggs of a pufferfish are poisonous. This may relate to... be the symbiotic relationship between pufferfish and bacteria that live in it...

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...> How does the poison of a pufferfish protect the pufferfish or its closest kin? Why ...liver and ovaries? The poison of a pufferfish concentrates in its liver and its ovaries...if the predator gets that far then the pufferfish is clearly dead. Whether the animal dies, ...concentration are not in themselves adaptive from the pufferfish point of view. Just the bacteria. Or ...

How does the poison of a pufferfish protect the pufferfish or its closest kin? Why is... the liver and ovaries? The poison of a pufferfish concentrates in its liver and its ovaries. ... if the predator gets that far then the pufferfish is clearly dead. Whether the animal dies, or... concentration are not in themselves adaptive from the pufferfish point of view. Just the bacteria. Or ...

... subjects for the understanding of vertebrate evolution. Although draft genome sequences of two pufferfishes have been published, analysis of more fish genomes is desirable. Here we report a... pressures acted on specific gene categories. Four-way comparisons with the human, pufferfish (Tetraodon), zebrafish and medaka genomes revealed that eight major interchromosomal rearrangements took place ...

... is lying, since lying is the basic creative process at work in its most direct and immediate form. Deception is vitally important to survival. Not just of Humans, but of many animal species too. The Pufferfish blows himself up to look larger than he is. The Cat's fur comes up when aroused, and he hunches up, in order to increase his apparent size. The Bear rears up on his hind legs ...