What you all think about this?
Clonal Origin and Evolution of a Transmissible Cancer http://www.cell.com/content/article/fulltext?uid=PIIS0092867406009123
CTVT (canine transmissible venereal tumor) is a new vertebrate bauplaun - with no vertebra at all! Phylogenetically it is a dog (Canis lupus)... could we call it a dog?
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Roberto Takata
> ...which is why it is good that "fish" is not, in fact, defined > phylogenetically.
If it were defined as "Actinopterygii", that would be a good thing! People might stop serving ray as "fish"...
Have you eaten ray wings? I have (when there was nothing better in the university cafeteria here). Slimy and fibrous at the same time. It's incredible. The monophyly of Osteichthyes becomes patently obvious this way.