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[apocalypse]

It's been a while since I last heard of this wondrous animal, and the exquisite potential it may've. When's its genome set to be sequenced? Or is it the case that none have yet set this potential marvel on their sights?

As some've mentioned, and as many're aware, this warm blooded creature appears to've exponentially more cells than us humans, and it's possible its lifespan is exponentially greater than ours. Keys towards increasing longevity could be found comparing such: are there drastic changes? are the changes just slight tweakings of what we already've? what problem or combinations of such have been better taken care of?

This creature which could serve as guidepost is endangered, is being hunted, and given the oceans are in for the destructive ride(caused by unparalled greed) along with the rest of the world, its presence is not guaranteed... My belief is that it's genome should be obtained ASAP.

bowhead longest lived?

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Is this the mito genome of this species?

bowhead mito genome?
If so it doesn't seem to've anything uber peculiar, at first glance at least.

[jaydfox]

Covered at fight aging:
http://www.fightagin...ives/000384.php

Mentioned here at ImmInst in the context of cancer incidence rates:
http://www.imminst.o...t=40#entry62590

[reason]

Suddenly that single "whale" in the search log today makes sense...

Reason
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[John Schloendorn]

I think these super-long lived mammals might have ways to degrade age-related aggregates that we can only dream of. One way of "learning" from them might be medical bioremediation, i.e. chop one up and see if any fragment of their genome can complement E. coli to degrade ketosterol for example. Definitely no shortage of input DNA there :-)

[apocalypse]

If so it doesn't seem to've anything uber peculiar, at first glance at least.

What sort of analysis led you to that conclusion?

Just clicked on the annotated summary, NC_005268, and a cursory comparison. It seems the genes that're there are pretty much the same as in the human mitos, though I may've missed something.