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They fought the law and the law won 英文参考文献
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They fought the law and the law won
Gregory A Petsko
Address: Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA.
Published: 2 November 2007
Genome Biology 2007, 8:111 (doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-111)
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be
found online at /2007/8/10/111
? 2007 BioMed Central Ltd
Australia used to have a cane beetle problem. The cane
beetle was slowly destroying the countrys sugar cane crops,
and there seemed to be no way to get rid of it. Then, in 1935,
someone had the bright idea to import a box of cane toads
from the Hawaiian Islands, where the large frogs (which
were 25 cm long and up to 4 kg in weight) supposedly kept
the pest in check. So, 102 cane toads were delivered to
Gordonvale, just south of Cairns, where after a few rounds of
captive breeding to increase their numbers, they were
released into the sugar cane fields. Then the fun began. It
turned out that cane toads cant jump very high so they did
not eat the cane beetles, which tended to reside on the upper
stalks of the cane plants. But they were able to eat just about
anything else: dog food, mice, the insects that native
Australian frogs eat, the native Australian frogs themselves,
and so on. They bred like flies: a pair of cane toads can lay
33,000 eggs per spawning. They proved resistant to
herbicides that would normally kill frogs and tadpoles. And
they are deadly poisonous; so they had no natural predators.
(Australian museums have exhibits of snakes that were
killed by toad toxin so fast that the toads are still in their
mouths.) The cane toad has turned out to be one of
Australias worst environmental disasters. Since 1935, it has
spread across most of Queensland, the entire Northern
Territory, and down the coast of New South Wales. So
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