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Fishing out a Feeding Paradox NEWS & VIEWS RESEARCH which it is being inserted, which takes up challenges of this type are eventually solved7,11,12. valuable space in the therapeutic agent. And Therefore, a CRISPR system used by trans- third, the generation of a DSB has an associ- posons to propagate themselves might well ated risk11, albeit a manageable one. Both find itself repurposed for genetic medicine. ■ Peters et al.6 and Klompe et al. suggest that the reported transposons provide, in principle, Fyodor D. Urnov is at the Innovative a solution to all those issues: the transposon Genomics Institute, Berkeley, California integration process does not require a DSB at 94704, USA. the target (Fig. 1b), or flanking DNA in the e-mail: [email protected] 50 Years Ago therapeutic agent, and should work in non- 1. Klompe, S. E., Vo, P. L. H., Halpin-Healy, T. S. & dividing cells. Hence, it could be an attractive Sternberg, S. H. Nature 571, 219–225 (2019). Assisted by off-stage noises which approach for human gene editing in the clinic. 2. Peters, J. E., Fricker, A. D., Kapili, B. J. & Petassi, M. T. included a belching elephant However, a long checklist must be Mol. Microbiol. 93, 1084–1092 (2014). seal, a giant toad in mating cry … completed before clinical applications can 3. Barrangou, R. & Horvath, P. Nature Microbiol. 2, and the song of a wren played at 17092 (2017). be considered seriously. This list includes: 4. Jinek, M. et al. Science 337, 816–821 (2012). slow speed, the British Library of showing that the process works efficiently at 5. Jiang, F. & Doudna, J. A. Annu. Rev. Biophys. 46, Wildlife Sounds (BLOWS) was target genome positions in disease-relevant 505–529 (2017). opened recently by Mr David human cells (rather than in bacteria); demon- 6. Peters, J. E., Makarova, K. S., Shmakov, S. & Attenborough … The library … Koonin, E. V. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 114, strating that it can integrate DNA fragments E7358–E7366 (2017). aims to be the national reference large enough to be clinically useful; proving 7. Anguela, X. M. & High, K. A. Annu. Rev. Med. 70, collection of wildlife sounds of all its specificity in the human genome, which 273–288 (2019). descriptions … Used in conjunction 8. Carroll, D. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 83, 409–439 (2014). is about 1,000 times larger than a bacterial 9. Urnov, F. D. CRISPR J. 1, 34–46 (2018). with other biological reference one; and developing ways to deliver the full 10. Moehle, E. A. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 104, collections, BLOWS should have an complement of proteins associated with the 3055–3060 (2007). important part to play in research integration process to cells without triggering 11. Porteus, M. H. N. Engl. J. Med. 380, 947–959 into animal behaviour, taxonomy (2019). the human immune response. This is a formi- 12. Dunbar, C. E. et al. Science 359, eaan4672 (2018). and evolution … The library’s target dable workload, but a key lesson of the past 30 is 10,000 recordings (disk or tape) of years of research into gene therapy is that most This article was published online on 12 June 2019. 2,500 species of animal in five years, and Mr Attenborough appealed for copies of commercial gramophone EVOLUTION records … and for copies of properly documented tape recordings of any animal sound made by either professional or amateur tape Fishing out a recordists. feeding paradox From Nature 12 July 1969 If an animal’s body shape is specialized in a way that aids feeding on specific 100 Years Ago organisms, does this restrict what the animal can prey on? An observation of fishes feeding in the wild might now help to settle this question. In the April issue of the Journal of Mental Science … Capt. O. P. Napier Pearn describes the differences and SEBASTIAN KRUPPERT & ADAM P. SUMMERS There are about 250 species of cichlid fish similarities in the actual insanities in Lake Tanganyika4. These species represent (psychoses) found in military and chance observation of fish behaviour, fishes that have a wide variety of feeding spe- civil practice … He has collected made during an underwater sur- cializations, including those that have evolved and tabulated the facts relating to vey along the eastern shore of Lake in a way that allows them to target a single type 200 cases which made a sufficiently ATanganyika in Tanzania, has now been of prey5–7, as well as fishes that are capable of good recovery to warrant their being reported in American Naturalist by Golcher- eating diverse sources of food. The shapes and returned to duty … [W]hile at the Benavides and Wagner1. Their observation features of the heads of some cichlid species onset of a mental disorder in civil neatly ties together 40-year-old laboratory bear witness to the adaptation that is suited to life the friends and relatives usually data2 and a model of evolution based on an their particular food source (Fig. 1). co-operate with the sick person in idea known as optimal-foraging theory3. One example of a cichlid species that has shielding him from medical advice, The serendipitous event occurred when evolved a feeding specialization is Perissodus such a patient in the Army … Golcher-Benavides was on a dive with a microlepis. This fish has a curved head, and is much more likely to receive Tanzanian colleague, George Kazumbe, when it swims alongside a larger fish, it can attention from his medical officer at studying the species present in a region per- suddenly attack and snatch a mouthful of an early stage. The effect of this early pendicular to the lake’s shoreline. They saw scales8. The population of this species is split care is that these cases respond to ahead, sparkling between the lake’s surface between fish whose head is curved to the left treatment in a very gratifying way … and its rocky bottom, a massive school of juve- for attacking the right side of its fish prey, and The article, while laying claim to nile sardines, estimated to comprise at least fish whose head is bent rightward to enable no new discovery, lays additional 50,000 individuals. Video footage of this event an assault on the prey’s left side. Other cich- emphasis upon the urgency of the captured what happened when the sardines lid feeding specializations include those for early treatment of mental disorders. encountered fishes belonging to a group called scraping algae from rocks9, biting out the eyes From Nature 10 July 1919 the cichlids. of other fish10, and gobbling eggs knocked out ©2019 Spri nger Nature Li mited. All ri ghts reserved. ©2019 Spri nger Nature Li mited. All ri ghts reserved. 11 JULY 2019 | VOL 571 | NATURE | 181 RESEARCH NEWS & VIEWS a b A, MELCHIOR DE BRUIN; B, EVERT VAN AMMELROOY DE BRUIN; B, EVERT VAN A, MELCHIOR Figure 1 | Cichlid fishes. Some species of fish belonging to a group called the food that they have evolved to target. If specialists can still target a variety of cichlids have body-shape specializations that help to capture specific types of food sources, this poses the condundrum, termed Liem’s paradox, of how such prey. For example, Petrochromis polyodon (a) has large lips, which enable this specializations evolve. Golcher-Benavides and Wagner1 report an observation species to scrape algae from rocks, whereas Haplotaxodon microlepis (b) has of wild cichlids, including the species shown, that encountered a school of an upward-oriented mouth that is suited to feeding on zooplankton floating in sardines they are not specialized to feed on. P. polyodon did not eat the sardines; the water. It has been debated whether cichlid feeding specialists eat only the however, H. microlepis switched from its usual food source to eat the sardines. of the mouths of brooding parents11. Liem’s paradox, and it is consistent with trade-off in specialization and missed out It was thought that these feeding evidence indicating that the diets of fishes that on the feast. In particular, cichlids that had a specializations allowed specific food sources differ in their form can still broadly overlap12. strongly downward-facing mouth or ‘tricuspid’, to be targeted as a way of handling intense However, there is an asymmetry in the trade- alga-combing teeth didn’t take the sardine competition for food. However, during the offs between food handling and competitive- snack. late 1970s and early 1980s, the biologist Karel ness: gaining the capacity to target a low-payoff This single observation gives field-based Liem made some muscle recordings of cichlids dietary item might cost little in terms of eating support for a theory that sprang from experi- during prey capture in the laboratory2. These high-payoff, easy prey, but if such a change mental observations. It also demonstrates the showed that some specialized cichlids retain resulted in loss of the ability to eat easy prey, importance of the well-trained and mentally the capacity to make the movements neces- it would be expensive for the predator. The prepared naturalist who can fit real-world sary to capture a range of prey. Liem therefore fingerprints of evolutionary selection on the observations into a framework that encom- asserted that it was a paradox (now referred to shape of a fish’s head should reflect the need to passes the scientific literature and personal as Liem’s paradox) that a fish best suited to a acquire the rare food items that get a species experience. ■ single type of prey could be a jack-of-all-trades. through adverse times, not items that represent But if specializing carries no penalty in food staples or windfalls.
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