Salamander with Eggs (IMAGE)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Salamander with Eggs

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A spotted salamander is surrounded by eggs that contain a symbiotic alga during a spring egg-laying event. 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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Ryan Kerney/Gettysburg College

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