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Is it possible to get ALWAYS FERTILE HYBRIDS?
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Is it possible to get ALWAYS FERTILE HYBRIDS?
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Hi,
Few years ago I visited my uncle who studied agriculture and I came upstairs looking for something to do. I found a book about biology and read few pages. It appears in some XVIth Century there was an English Lord, who started to cross racing horses, so that now we have that Arabs and English race and so on... and these horses are kinda... supreme. The method invented by this English Lord was pretty simple, but even now it is pretty revolutionairy and it appears (I asked few scientists about it) - we still do not know why it works, but it does and it is an important part of managing of racing horses crossing.
It might by called "genetical pump", but it is just inbred-outbred-inbred by turns. This way we get a genetical advantage that simple animals do not have. So I figured out (and tested that home on hybridising sword fish and mollys) that if we do that "genetical pump" like - incest-hybridisation-incest, what we get is a hybrid that is always fertile (most of the cross-species hybrids are unfertile or partly unfertile), that hybrid has more genetical advantage than a simple hybrid and this way we can cross animals, that usually do not cross or never cross.
Yet, even though I tried to convince few scientists to test this - they did not reply. It is important, because in some 100 years only some 10-20% species will be left on Earth because of human interference and there might be a lot more, if those animals survived as hybrids, or there is a better and more effective way to create GMO, if that GMO is created out of a hybrid.
What do I do to get through with this theory?
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You successfully hybridized swordfish and mollies? That sounds very unlikely. Those two species aren't even in the same taxonomic order. Do you have any of those hybrids on hand? I'm sure geneticists would love to examine them.
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Yes, I did that. Some 30 years ago. I got one fish anf it was pretty awesome. Yet I described how I did that (at that time it was by accident - I just let these fish do the incest not knowing what it leads to - and then they hybridised). The problem is that I am an ingineer in computer science and a disabled person that does not work. I practically have no chance to prove this theory now and I do not know whether I can even call it a hypothesis or just an idea. I wrote to few scientists but the ones that did answer are busy right now even though they find some potential in this theory (if it was proven) and they do not know how to help me right now.
The thing is that in some 100 years only 10-20% of animal species are going to survive and if we want to keep that number bigger - we got to hybridise, because hybrids with their vigour, stamina and prowess (and also more invasive type of life) are going to be able to survive more difficult enviroment with more human interference, than simple animals. I also think hybrids are a lot more grateful animals if it goes to making GMO out of them, which is the future. I do not have the money for experiments and even if I did and I made them - no-one would take such tests as credible since I am no scientist (biologist). There is a problem with hybrids' fertility mostly they are at least partly unfertile, but there are also few examples of hybrids - when humans made unfertile hybrids fertile. That is case is Polish Zubron - a mix of a cow and zubr (close cousin to buffalo). The animals were supposed to give better meat and humans were supposed to have to take care about them less. But it appeared that the animal has a great temper and it is only been bred because of tourism in one village in Poland.
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