A Planktonic Copepod Crustacean (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

A Planktonic Copepod Crustacean

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One suspect in the disappearance of cod and other groundfish is the food source for their young: a planktonic copepod crustacean, no larger than a grain of rice. Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa are using a new molecular technique called transcriptomics to determine how copepods are responding to global climate change.

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<a target="_blank"href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GulfofMaine2.jpg">Gulf of Maine -- Wikipedia</a>; <i>Calanus finmarchicus</i> -- Patrick Hassett, Ohio University

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