So, you know, why I like the axolotl. - Why?

所以，你知道为什么我喜欢蝾螈吗？- 为什么？

The axolotl is native only to Mexico.

蝾螈原产于墨西哥。

Today I'm here with my axolotl Monty.

今天我和我的美西螈蒙蒂在一起。

I'm not saying I'm an axolotl expert.

我不是说我是蝾螈专家。

Looking a little long, and I have a little axolotl pneumonia.

看起来有点长，而且我得了小蝾螈肺炎。

This is what the inside of your axolotl look like.

这就是你的蝾螈体内的样子。

As the museum opened to its first visitors, the axolotl's popularity with the public was very clear.

随着该博物馆向第一批参者开放，蝾螈在公众中的受欢是非常明显的。

Take Trimerorhachis, which looked like an overgrown axolotl.

以 Trimerorhachis 为例，它看起来像一只长得太大的蝾螈。

Let's take a look back at that adorable little axolotl with the findings of two recent studies.

让我们根据最近两项研究的结果来回顾一下那只可爱的小蝾螈。

This particular type of axolotl, a very close relative, is known as an achoque.

这种特殊类型的蝾螈，非常近亲，被称为无脊椎动物。

When an axolotl loses a limb, tissues stimulate growth in the area.

当蝾螈失去肢体时，组织会刺激该区域的生长。

If interest grows, farmers could recover abandoned chinampas and support the local community— along with the axolotl.

如果兴趣增加，农民可以恢复废弃的 chinampas 并支持当地社区 - 以及蝾螈。

To better understand the axolotl's baffling biology, scientists sequenced its genome.

为了更好地了解蝾螈令人费解的生物学特性，科学家对其基因组进行了测序。

In Aztec tradition, a rebel god named Xolotl turned himself into an axolotl to hide and avoid being killed by his other gods.

在阿兹特克人的传统文化中，一位名叫索洛托的反叛神将自己变成了蝾螈，以躲避其他神的追杀。

The man, who did not want to give his last name, showed off a small axolotl tattoo he had on his arm.

这名男子不愿透露自己的姓氏，他展示了他手臂上的一个小蝾螈纹身。

The simplest explanation for this is that the axolotl lineage alone lost the ability to metamorphose, while others retained it.

最简单的解释就是只有美西螈家系失去了变形能力，而其他家系都保持着这种能力。

Scientists hope that one day we'll be able to apply the axolotl's masterful tumor suppression and regenerative abilities to the human body.

科学家们希望有一天我们能够将蝾螈的强大的肿瘤抑制和再生能力应用于人体。

Investigating the axolotl's genome, scientists saw many repeated sequences, most of which don't code for proteins and have no known function.

通过调查蝾螈的基因组，科学家们发现了许多重复序列，其中大部分不编码蛋白质，也没有已知的功能。

However, the biggest factor that sets axolotl regeneration apart may not be a set of unique genes, but how they regulate their genes.

然而，蝾螈再生与众不同的最大因素可能不是一组独特的基因，而是它们如何调节自己的基因。

The researchers found that, like biological wrecking balls, certain jumping genes need to be shackled in the axolotl's cells or they might disrupt their process of regeneration.

研究人员发现， 就像生物破坏球一样， 某些跳跃基因需要束缚在蝾螈的细胞中，否则它们可能会破坏它们的再生过。