Female copepod (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Female copepod

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A female Tigriopus californicus copepod with an egg sac containing 30 to 40 offspring was obtained for the new study from a population just south of San Diego's Ocean Beach.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California - San Diego

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