ET, off the coast of Alaska was downgraded by the USGS from 7.7 to 7.5.

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Venter et. al had already pulled off a similar trick a few years ago, when he popped a genome from one bacteria into another.

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In fact, the most common type of T. gondii found to be infecting otters off the California coast is the Type X strain (Conrad et al., 2005), which has yet to be traced to domestic cats (Miller et al., 2008).

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