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rospigan

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09/03/2008 9:49 AM
Jere! Remember last autumn when you sent me the scientific article about research mice that's progeny could be changed in size and colour by giving the mother particular food. It was about the environments influence on the mice genes, so that the environment, including the food, could partially or fully turn on or of genes in the mice DNA and that was brought further in the progeny for several generations. I printed the stuff and read it in bed a number of times but as my bedside is always full of all kind of papers, books and magazines it was finally lost into the waste-bag at some stage. In order to print it I must have saved it on some harddrive but cant find it any more (we have 8 harddrives more or less littered with all kind of stuff and some that are crashed and lost). I admit that I am a rather unorganised person but that truth does not help me for the moment )) I only need the URL to the University that produced it in first hand, if you still have it! Torsti Borta Med Vindens Kennel "Ask not what your dog can do for you. Ask what you can do for your dog." www.rospigan.net

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09/03/2008 10:07 AM
Can someone please instruct me on how to unsubscribe? Thank you. Laurie McCarty -----Original Message----- From: Maud & Torsti To: working-gundog@web.whc.net Sent: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:35 am Subject: [working-gundog] Jere! Jere! Remember last autumn when you sent me the scientific article about research mice that's progeny could be changed in size and colour by giving the mother particular food. It was about the environments influence on the mice genes, so that the environment, including the food, could partially or fully turn on or of genes in the mice DNA and that was brought further in the progeny for several generations. I printed the stuff and read it in bed a number of times but as my bedside is always full of all kind of papers, books and magazines it was finally lost into the waste-bag at some stage. In order to print it I must have saved it on some harddrive but cant find it any more (we have 8 harddrives more or less littered with all kind of stuff and some that are crashed and lost). I admit that I am a rather unorganised person but that truth does not help me for the moment )) I only need the URL to the University that produced it in first hand, if you still have it! Torsti Borta Med Vindens Kennel "Ask not what your dog can do for you. Ask what you can do for your dog." www.rospigan.net Get the MapQuest Toolbar. Directions, Traffic, Gas Prices & More!

jmurr

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09/03/2008 12:27 PM
Hi Torsti, The work was done at Duke University in North Carolina (www.duke.edu), USA in 2000, by Randy Jirtle and his postdoctoral student Robert Waterland. I sent another copy of the article in Discover to your email. I'll send the original (though some photos appear to be missing) and another too. How is the fall progressing there? We have pretty much steady rain here all over the state. One of those falls when it rains until it snows I guess. We haven't left the house to hunt the dogs yet and the season has been open for nearly a month! Regards, Jere

rospigan

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09/04/2008 4:23 AM
>>>How is the fall progressing there? We have pretty much steady rain here all over the state. One of those falls when it rains until it snows I guess. We haven't left the house to hunt the dogs yet and the season has been open for nearly a month! Regards, Jere>>>> We have had a lot of rain that is OK with me, but I just wonder how the farmers manage to harvest the grain? However I have not seen much grain knocked down to the ground in this part of the country by really heavy rain and wind so I guess a few days of dry weather, like today, might save the situation. I have seen big flocks of crane indicating that they are already preparing for moving south and now that the mosquitoes really thrive in the rain the flycatchers and swallows are already gone. They could have stayed a bit longer, would need their help now )) It is not that bad at all here but in some parts of the country the mosquito situation has been so severe so they have used biological methods to combat the mosquitoes. From helicopters they spray some small parasites that will kill the larvae from the inside. If you go to the mainland you will find a lot of mushrooms, for some reason they do not grow that much on this island. One reason could be that acid clouds from down in Europe will in summertime, when the winds come mainly from the south, condensate at the seaside to the Sea of Aland and rain down on us. The soil is in other words (probably) too acid for the mushrooms. Curse the European Union )) From Maud's research trip I know that the grouse and forest birds are down this year. A friend paid around equalling US$3000 to fly into the wilderness up in northern Sweden with a chopper and basically ate dry food for a week out there, since only a few birds could be found. He was wondering why he had to pay that much for getting nothing when he is in practice living in the middle of good partridge fields on the Gotland island? )) (Malicious pleasure is the best pleasure, as we use to say) My flue is more or less gone now, remembering last autumns pneumonia I have been careful now. When I am finished with the cruise liner, that absorbs too much of my energy, in less than two weeks, I will do something that involves a hunting gun and a dog, but I do not yet know what. Until then we will train with clays. That's how the situation is right now. Torsti Borta Med Vindens Kennel "Ask not what your dog can do for you. Ask what you can do for your dog." www.rospigan.net

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