Antarctic Eelpout (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Antarctic Eelpout

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The researchers traced the evolution of a gene in the Antarctic eelpout (Lycodichthys dearborni) that enables it to survive in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean.

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Photo by Christina Cheng

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