Comments on: Giardia lamblia, polyadenylation, and irreducible complexity http://aghunt.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/giardia-lamblia-polyadenylation-and-irreducible-complexity/ In biology, all roads lead to RNA ... Fri, 03 May 2013 17:53:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Arthur Hunt http://aghunt.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/giardia-lamblia-polyadenylation-and-irreducible-complexity/#comment-776 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:17:40 +0000 http://aghunt.wordpress.com/?p=200#comment-776 Hi LivMorf,

I’m not sure about the comments issue on PT. But I believe one can answer your question by studying Figures 2 and 3 in the PT essay. It’s hard to come up with an exact number of steps, since it is possible for some of the changes to occur in either concerted or step-wise fashion.

But maybe you are getting at something else, maybe? Feel free to ask.

]]> By: LivMorf http://aghunt.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/giardia-lamblia-polyadenylation-and-irreducible-complexity/#comment-775 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:44:49 +0000 http://aghunt.wordpress.com/?p=200#comment-775 Dr. Arthur Hunt,

On a tangent, but on a similar topic nonetheless, I wanted to ask you a question. For some odd reason I am unable to comment on your PT post “On the Evolution of Irreducible Complexity,” where you discuss T-urf13 (perhaps it is a technical problem?). But that is beside the point.
I wanted to ask you this question: namely, how many specific mutations are required for the evolution of T-urf13 and how do you arrive at this figure?
Thanks.

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