Draft blog post cleanup #2: Metagenomics meets animals

OK - I am cleaning out my draft blog post list.  I start many posts and don't finish them and then they sit in the draft section of blogger.  Well, I am going to try to clean some of that up by writing some mini posts.  Here is #2:

Saw an interesting story on Genome Web: 'Denizens' of the Deep | The Daily Scan | GenomeWeb.  I have not been able to get the original article yet, but it seems that what they have done can basically be considered metagenomics for animals.  They collected sloughed off cells and other material from a lake and surveyed it for animal DNA.  This seems like a very cool derivative of metagenomic approaches and has enormous potential.  But alas, I never got down to getting access to the paper: Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA so this will have to stay as a mini post.  Damn non open access journals ...

Tattoos of Drunken Worms

>You know that you had a good Mexico time, when you wake up and happen to notice something that ugly on your back.

Tattoos of Skunk-ina-Rip

>This tat stinks ! (Now I'm the one using bad puns)

Tattoos of USA Eagle

>Is it just me or some tattoo animals have the "please, kill me" face expression ?

Tattoos of Dead Bunny

>The right way to say that Easter Bunny doesn't exist.

Tattoos of Bear

>SPARTAAAAAAAAA ! (Or any other generic shout)

Tattoos of Unicorn

>Why isn't he smiling ? He looks kinda pissed, at least I would be if someone tattooed my severed head around someones navel and make me smell (eat?) my mane for the rest of my life.

Tattoos of Flaming Eagle

>Burn birdy burn. Please tell me that it was made in jail or I will lost any faith in the tattooers.

Tattoos of Three Drunk Frogs

>His only friends.

Tattoos of Burned Lions

>

I know that those are supposed to depict lions but Blake's poem fits perfectly here.

Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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Tattoos of Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (With a Snake)

>None provokes me unpunished - Well, I will. This snake is awful, so is the sign. Is he trying to scare those who criticise his tattoo ?

Tattoos of Probably Sea Horse

>Or a legless zebra with a scruffy mane.

Tattoos of Curious Monkeys

>101 uses for the belly button.

Tattoos of Tribal Lion

>Failed tribal and even worse animal tattoo (the lion looks retarded)

Tattoos of Monkey Love

>If you find this romantic, you need to go and see a specialist.

Tattoos of Tribal + Bulldog + Dragon

>The clich� stew

Tattoos of Turkey

>Where do turkeys go after they are eaten ?

Tattoos of Killer Beaver

>Fear the killer beaver

Tattoos of Manly Tattoo

>What can be manlier then a pink skull-like butterfly tattoo

Tattoos of Paradise Lost

>Dolphin, parrots, sea at sunset ... what else can you ask for, maybe a little taste but that's my opinion