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New York City Has Genetically Distinct ‘Uptown’ and ‘Downtown’ Rats. A graduate student sequenced rats all over Manhattan, and discovered how the city affects their genetic diversity. [The Atlantic]
posted by moonmilk (25 comments total) 23 users marked this as a favorite
 
(You can access the original research paper by clicking the "most comprehensive genetic portrait" link in the Atlantic article.)
posted by moonmilk at 12:28 PM on November 29, 2017


No love for the bridge and tunnel rats, quelle surprise.
posted by Iris Gambol at 12:35 PM on November 29, 2017 [15 favorites]


🎶Uptown giluwe...🎶
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:38 PM on November 29, 2017 [1 favorite]


Hey, grumpybear69, read the tags! :)
posted by moonmilk at 12:46 PM on November 29, 2017 [11 favorites]


Billy Joel denied!
posted by Pope Guilty at 12:48 PM on November 29, 2017 [3 favorites]


No Billy Joel? I'll have to make due with some Petula Clark then...

When you're a rat, and genes make you distinct
You can always go...

Downtown

posted by GuyZero at 1:05 PM on November 29, 2017 [16 favorites]


I don't think we needed some grad student study to confirm this just look at the rats all those downtown rats are always listening to their out jazz and growing their hair all long and talking about what's hip
posted by Lutoslawski at 1:07 PM on November 29, 2017 [3 favorites]


Love that title! Title reference (prepare for some '80s awesomeness)
posted by NoMich at 1:14 PM on November 29, 2017 [3 favorites]


As I mentioned in this thread from two years ago, Rats is a fine book for those interested in the back alleys of NYC.
posted by LeLiLo at 1:22 PM on November 29, 2017 [4 favorites]


but no boomtown rats? I hear they don't like mondays.
posted by evilmonk at 1:37 PM on November 29, 2017 [6 favorites]


New York has been the center of so much trade and immigration, yet the descendants of these Western European rats have held on.
posted by flabdablet at 1:56 PM on November 29, 2017


New York has been the center of so much trade and immigration, yet the descendants of these Western European rats have held on.
I thought Feivel went west.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 2:06 PM on November 29, 2017 [5 favorites]


Rats really Don't Wanna Go Uptown
posted by vers at 2:13 PM on November 29, 2017


Grimdark Valley Girl reboot!
posted by rhizome at 2:15 PM on November 29, 2017


If I was a New York rat my DNA would basically be intertwined cheese pizza and bialys.
posted by Room 641-A at 2:42 PM on November 29, 2017 [3 favorites]


Same is true of the Sciuridae.

As a result you have Uptown Squirrels.
posted by leotrotsky at 2:54 PM on November 29, 2017 [7 favorites]


ahem, leotrotsky
posted by moonmilk at 3:05 PM on November 29, 2017


Uptown rats
Been infestin’ all their uptown flats.
I bet they never had some downtown cheese;
Smoky gouda prob’ly makes them sneeze.
And they have fleas.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 3:13 PM on November 29, 2017 [13 favorites]


Flagged!
posted by moonmilk at 3:39 PM on November 29, 2017


There's a rat in Hell's Kitchen, what Imma gonna do?
There's a rat in Hell's Kitchen, what Imma gonna do?
I'm gonna sequence that rat, that's what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna sequence that rat.
posted by drlith at 4:09 PM on November 29, 2017 [3 favorites]


But I thought NYC rats commuted for pizza?
posted by Sys Rq at 4:38 PM on November 29, 2017 [1 favorite]


The real genetic division is between Grimaldi's rats and Juliana's rats.
posted by moonmilk at 4:42 PM on November 29, 2017


I suspect neither genetic type likes mondays.
posted by davejay at 5:36 PM on November 29, 2017


Tell me why they don't like Mondays?
posted by moonmilk at 5:43 PM on November 29, 2017 [1 favorite]


but no boomtown rats? I hear they don't like mondays.

Some go out kicking at the perfumed air.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:49 PM on November 29, 2017


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