That is a clue to anyone who studies the distribution of organisms on Earth that there might be something different going on there,» says Rich Mooi, the Curator of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology at the Academy and a specialist in
sea urchins who took part in the expedition.
Not exact matches
Many people are having a go — from a woman
who works at a fish market by day and cultures
sea urchin meat by night, to high - school students culturing shellfish in their refrigerators.
«We might not have known
urchins and six - armed
sea stars were affected if lab - held animals hadn't died right in front of us,» said the study's lead author Laura Jurgens, a graduate student at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory
who earned her doctorate in May.
David Schatz of Yale University,
who studies the origin of VDJ recombination, isn't yet totally convinced the
sea urchin genes are in fact versions of RAG1 and RAG2.
If you want something on the paranormal side of the romance genre, try Water Bound by Christine Freehan, an imaginative tale about a beautiful
sea urchin diver
who saves a drowning man.
Gretchen Hofmann
who studies
sea urchin larvae calls this the «double jeopardy» problem, where larvae can still make their skeletal rods, but doing so comes at the cost of being able to cope with thermal stress.