
'Elemental Fingerprinting' Traces Origins Of Marine Creatures
March 27, 2007 @ 08:59 AM (EST)
Source: Sciencedaily.com
Tracing the origins of marine animals can be extremely difficult, especially in the free-flowing, soup-like conditions of the ocean, but obtaining this information is vital not only for understanding these organisms but for managing and conserving them as well. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have developed a novel approach for tracing the life roots of marine larvae, some of the most difficult organisms to track due to their microscopic sizes...
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