Posted on 11/05/2013 4:03:05 PM PST by lbryce
Move over, Sharks and Jets. New Yawk's next turf rumble could pit roach against roach.
According to an ongoing study called the National Cockroach Project, the roaches of three NYC neighborhoods—the Upper West Side, the Upper East Side, and Roosevelt Island—are genetically distinct. Like many of the city's humans, each group tends to stay in its own neighborhood. And, since American cockroaches originated overseas, these urban insects can also claim immigrants as ancestors.
To find out more about what's bugging the Big Apple, we sat down with the project's lead scientist: Mark Stoeckle, an infectious-disease specialist and senior research associate at the Rockefeller University's Program for the Human Environment.
How did the National Cockroach Project come about?
We'd been working with high-school students using bar coding, which is a simple way of identifying species by DNA. And one of the projects a couple of years ago was a sort of CSI for the home—students went around and collected everything they could find that might have DNA in it. When we had that tested, one of the things that turned up was a cockroach that looked genetically distinct.
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The leftists will now demand forced busing to make schools and neighborhoods have a more diverse cockroach population.
“Affordable housing” and section 8 will migrate to the suburbs so poor cockroaches get live the life they only dreamed of.
Which cockroach line does de Blasio belong to ?
kind of parallels that old thread about Giraffes and Frogs
I hope the UN doesn’t negotiate a cease fire. I hope they don’t get into anyone’s popcorn.
Just stay outta Brooklyn, ya Manhattan cockroaches, an’ ya wont get hoit. Ya unnerstan’?
Puts a whole new spin on a government RAID.
Where I come from, these regional roaches are called DEMOCRATS. Screw the genetic differences. Under their carapace wings/shell, they are all filthy political rats.
I thought most of them were muzzlem descendants of Mohamhead.
Let’s see...he’s changed his name 3 times. So, maybe he is from all 3 lines of cockroaches.
Let’s see...he’s changed his name 3 times. So, maybe he is from all 3 lines of cockroaches.
I watched that movie on video when I 11 years old, and I thought it was hilarious. Especially the part where the overhead light fixture tipped over, and hundreds of roaches fell into the lap of Joe’s beautiful girlfriend while they were trying to make out on the couch.
Back in those days VCR’s and Blockbuster still existed.
Vermin is a whole other classification.
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