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Comb jellies used in study on adaptability for vastly different environments
A collage of five comb jelly species that were used in a study that provided insight into how related ocean creatures have adapted to live in vastly different environments. Starting in the upper left and moving clockwise, the species are: (Beroe cucumis), (Leucothea pulchra), (Beroe abyssicola), (Bathocyroe aff. fosteri) and an undescribed mertensiid.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants MCB 2121854, MCB 2316457, OCE 1829805, MCB 2316456, MCB 2046303, MCB 2316458, IOS 2040022 and DMR 1829070.]
Learn more in the NSF Discovery Files story Deep-sea discovery opens up ocean of potential. (Date of image: 2021; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Aug. 9, 2024)
Credit: Jacob Winnikoff
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