The 'Cost' of Shell Production Varies from the Tropics to the Poles (10 of 12) (IMAGE)

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The 'Cost' of Shell Production Varies from the Tropics to the Poles (10 of 12)

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Tropical clam (giant clam). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 20, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.-A. Watson at James Cook University in Townsville, QLD, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "Latitudinal trends in shell production cost from the tropics to the poles."

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[Credit: Sue-Ann Watson]

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