Eggs with Algae (IMAGE)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Eggs with Algae

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Salamander eggs in a laboratory experiment are visibly colored green by a symbiotic alga. New research reports that the eggs compete with the algae to assimilate carbon from their surroundings - a finding that could inform similar processes in the dark ocean.

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Erin Chapman/American Museum of Natural History

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