Talk:Caulerpa taxifolia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Plants, an attempt to better organise information in articles related to plants and botany. For more information, visit the project page.
???	This article has not yet received a quality rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received an importance rating on the importance scale.

There is a couple of hypothesis of where this dangerous strain originated from. I haven't read too deep into it, so I restrained to add this information on the front article, but believe it need to be mentioned somehow, if someone more competent can spare a second.

I think one of them was it was havested from some sea and assisted to breed faster. I am not sure this make sense though. I am spectical because I can't understand why it never spread before man interfered, if it had always existed in the water. May be I misread something or I am nuturally a moron and unable to synthesis some biological aspect of the literature.

The second hypothsis was mutation when man started breeding it in the cold ponds. Whether the mutation was induced by man or just occured naturally, I have no clue. This hypothesis seem more solid, as that explain the lack of natural enemies. The change was outside its natural environment and therefore didn't give its predactor a chance to evolve.

I can't remember the other stuff of head. One more thing that would improve this introduction part of this article is to move up or down the mentioning of the strain to where the detail of this specific stain start. For example, is it only this specific strain that produce one very potent toxin or is this common with all its sister strain? gathima 15:10, 5 August 2005 (UTC)