Christina Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Christina Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Illinois animal biology professor Christina Cheng led a study that traced the evolution of a gene for an antifreeze protein in an Antarctic fish from the gene for a protein with an entirely different function.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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