RE: New extinction theory

[John Hunt <john.bass@ntlworld.com>]

There seem to be a lot of papers like this by people that still think
dinosaurs are just big reptiles.

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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf Of
Phil Bigelow
Sent: 05 June 2005 14:34
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: New extinction theory

Is it just me, or was anyone else confused after reading the 2nd half of
their abstract?

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On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 11:32:23 -0400 "Andrew A. Farke"
<afarke@ic.sunysb.edu> writes:
> I haven't had a chance to read through this yet (or will I in the 
> near
> future), but figured it might be of interest to some on the list.
> 
> Wang, G.-Z., B.-G. Ma, Y. Yang, and H.-Y. Zhang. Unexpected amino 
> acid
> composition of modern Reptilia and its implications in molecular 
> mechanisms
> of dinosaur extinction. Biochemical and Biophysical Research 
> Communications
> In Press, Corrected Proof.
> 
> Dinosaur extinction is a great challenge to evolutionary biology. 
> Although
> accumulating evidence suggests that an abrupt change of environment, 
> such as
> a long period of low temperature induced by asteroid hit or other 
> disasters,
> may be responsible for dinosaur extinction, little is known about 
> the
> underlying molecular mechanisms. By analyzing the amino acid 
> compositions of
> 13 biological classes, we found that the charged amino acid content 
> of
> modern Reptilia, the sibling of dinosaur, is strikingly different 
> from those
> of other classes, which inspires us to propose a possible molecular
> mechanism for dinosaur extinction.
> 
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> Department of Anatomical Sciences
> Stony Brook University
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