How to become a mermaid

Chapter 13 Found the reason!
Shaman Lair started his anemone experiments again.

The so-called failure is the mother of success, and with Alicia's encouragement, Shamanlaar rekindled his fighting spirit.

Isn't it just a failure once or twice? If you want to successfully hybridize an excellent sea anemone, how can you not experience failure.

But... Shaman Lair needs to think about the reasons for his last failure.

He asked Alicia, and according to her, even if different species hybridize naturally, the chances of producing offspring are actually not high, and deformities are easily produced.

That is to say, although the reproductive isolation between Orr's various species is very weak, there are still considerable obstacles to cross-species reproduction.

Although the colorful carpet anemone and the succulent grape anemone are both sea anemones, they are actually two completely different species.

It is reasonable to say that the two species cannot reproduce, but they have offspring hatched out, and the epidermis and interior have different growth rates.

Shamanleir thinks this is the key to the death of sea anemone larvae.

The volume of the colorful carpet anemone is much larger than that of the succulent grape anemone. Is it possible that the outer skin of the anemone larvae inherits their father's succulent grape, while the inner part inherits the female parent's colored carpet, which leads to asynchronous growth rate, and As for growing too fast and bursting?
This idea flashed in Shamanleir's mind, and he quickly swam to the sea anemone hybridization base, looking for any remaining sea anemone larvae from his several glass bottles.

Shamanleir was lucky this time, and two sea anemone larvae stuck to the glass bottle wall remained intact, and their positions were too tricky to be eaten by reef fish.

Vigorously pouring the two sea anemone larvae out of the glass bottle, Samantel pinched one of them with two slender fingers and carefully placed it in front of his eyes for observation.

This sea anemone larva is still too small to tell what kind of sea anemone it looks more like just from its appearance.

【Name: 005—002】

[Species: unknown sea anemone]

[Alienation degree: 23%]

[Status: Death]

[Special parts: none]

[Evaluation: Edible, non-toxic]

Several pieces of information about this sea anemone larva appeared in the eyes of Shaman Lyle.

Samantel carefully peeled off the skin of the sea anemone larva with his nails, and held it in front of his eyes to look at it again.

【Name: 005—002】

【Species: Colored Carpet Anemone】

[Alienation degree: 8%]

[Status: Death]

[Special parts: none]

[Evaluation: Edible, non-toxic]

After shedding a layer of skin, the sea anemone larva displayed different information in the eyes of Shamanleir.

And its peeled off skin was also detected by Shaman Lair.

【Name: 005—002】

[Species: Succulent Grape Anemone]

[Alienation degree: 23%]

[Status: Death]

[Special parts: none]

[Evaluation: Edible, non-toxic]

It was obviously the same sea anemone larva, but after tearing off the outer skin, there were two completely different results, just like two sea anemones were forcibly combined into one thing.

In other words, Shaman Lair's guess is not wrong!
The death of the sea anemone larvae was not due to improper feeding by Shaman Leer, but their own defects. The genes between the two sea anemones were not completely combined, but expressed separately, giving birth to this specious offspring !
If the problem of gene fusion is not solved, it seems extremely difficult to directly cross these two kinds of sea anemones. The difference in size between them is doomed to the failure of this experiment.

The more Samantel thought about it, the clearer he became, and the more he thought about it, the more open-minded he became.

He thought that he also had a control group, the same two kinds of sea anemones, but the roles of the male parent and the female parent were reversed.

If this batch of anemone larvae inherited the skin of the succulent grape anemone and the core of the colorful carpet anemone, will the larvae of another group of anemone come in the opposite direction?

This is a question worth thinking about. Shamanleir's eyes lit up instantly, and he quickly swam to the other side of the breeding base.

His batch of sea anemones have been planted here for almost 20 days, and no sea anemones have reproduced yet.

While waiting, Samantel carved his experimental records for today on the slate.

[My first hybridization experiment failed, and all the larvae died, but it was not without a little gain. At least I guessed that the reason for their death was that the gene expression was out of sync. It seems that the two sea anemones with huge size differences cannot Directly used for hybridization, maybe I can try it with anemones of similar size next time. ]
[I also have a control group, and if this group of anemone larvae behaves the opposite of the previous group, then my guess is correct. ]
In the next few days, Shamanlell recorded while observing the movements of the anemones.

[This batch of sea anemones seems to be more "shy" than the previous batch, and the running-in period between them has been longer. It has been 25 days, and I have not seen them trying to spit out germ cells. Why is this?Is it because the father and mother are different? ]
[Speaking of whether the reproduction of sea anemones is dominated by females or males, this is still unknown.Judging from the performance of the previous batch, although the timing of their spitting out cells is not exactly the same, they are roughly the same, that is to say, they will communicate when they need to reproduce. If only I could understand sea anemones The language between is just fine...]
[No.30 days after planting this batch of sea anemones, they have reproduced behavior, just like last time, I collected a lot of sea anemone germ cells, but this time I divided them into more glass bottles, Give them a good environment to grow. ]
[On the first day of sea anemone egg development, there are no obvious changes. ]
[The next day, a small number of sea anemone eggs lost their activity, and the remaining sea anemone eggs were slightly larger. ]
[On the third day, a small number of sea anemones died and increased in size again, but I found that the growth rate of this batch of sea anemone eggs was not as fast as the previous batch. ]
[On the fourth day, I confirmed that this batch of sea anemone eggs did not grow as fast as the previous batch. Sure enough, swapping male and female parents can affect the offspring of sea anemones. ]
Fifth day, sixth day, seventh day...

The sea anemone eggs are developing smoothly, and the breeding process is almost the same as the previous batch. However, after Shaman Leer noticed the problem of packaging, the death rate of the sea anemone eggs decreased a little. On the ninth day he There are about six or seven hundred sea anemone eggs left.

Moreover, this time the sea anemone hatched faster than the last time. On the tenth day, a batch of sea anemone larvae were impatiently born.

Over the next two days, more anemone larvae were born.

Shamanleir got a total of 324 sea anemone larvae this time, almost ten times more than the last time.

He still catches some small fish and shrimp every day, or catches some tiny plankton from the sea to feed these sea anemone larvae.

Under Shamanleir's careful feeding, these little sea anemones grew up day by day, from the size of a corn kernel to the size of an egg in a few days, and there was no such thing as the last time that the skin burst.

However, they didn't grow smoothly, and they were all listless, and they were weak when their cilia were paddling.

In Shamanleir's sight, he could see [Malnutrition] at a glance.

The skin of these sea anemone larvae grows too fast, causing the internal nutrition to not keep up, and the situation is completely developing towards Shaman Lair's conjecture.

(End of this chapter)