[Gusdev-gusdev] how do i get a gene's taxon?

[steve f. <sfi...@pc...>]

i want to open up the following for discussion:  
  - currently (3.0), if given a gene id, how does one get the gene's 
taxon?  as a slightly naive user of the schema, i confess that i am 
stumped by this (and assumed it would be straightforward)
  - should this be a direct attribute of the gene (and, any answer we 
give here might apply in parallel to RNA)?

steve