For those creationoids who think there's a "gotcha" here, I suggest they think (and I mean "think") twice.
The apparent species skipping is just not so.
Your (BMCDA) post is quite good.
js1138 (?) also showed that the problem could well be associated with incorrect taxonomy, something that is always being updated and corrected. Science is not static.
The other possibility is that the gene is really not "missing", just cryptic or recessive or modifed (could even be post translation modification, or mutated simply so that it can revert to wildtype at a later stage.
All of these are much more probable and fit Occam's Razor much better that ID or some other mystical mush.
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