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Fish swim underwater amidst mangrove roots at Bocas del Toro, Panama.
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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

DNA is everywhere—it can be found in hair, saliva, blood, bones, feces or even...
July 2018
Screenshot from video with researchers on a ship collecting water.
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Working in the Dark

Most of the viruses in the ocean are unknown, but scientists are working to fix...
Wed, 07/03/2019 - 15:42
A view of the island of Moorea.
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The Moorea Biocode Project

Scientists on the tiny island of Moorea, in the Pacific, are gathering one of every...
Wed, 11/11/2009 - 16:48
A screenshot from the video of a shark swimming underwater.
video

Shark DNA Helps Catch Poachers

Dr. Mahmood Shivji explains how shark DNA is used as evidence to prosecute shark...
Wed, 09/30/2009 - 13:14
On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
overview

Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific....
April 2018
sea turtles in a cage
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Marine Forensics

Forensics is a key tool for enforcing the laws and treaties that protect marine...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:32
a hammerhead shark
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Shark Fin Genetics

Dr. Demian Chapman of the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at New York’s...
Mon, 10/18/2010 - 16:27
two people in the water with mountains in the background
video

Welcome to the Moorea Biocode Project

Scientists journey to the isolated island of Moorea on a quest to catalog every...
Wed, 04/21/2010 - 11:28
The Indo-Pacific puffer fish
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A Library of Puffer Fish DNA

Some fish you can fry up in the pan, no questions asked. Others require a bit of...
Larvae sea bass looking at the adult version of itself with a black background.
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Are You My Mommy?

Human infants often already resemble their parents. Visitors coo, "Oh, she has your...
A geneticist samples shark DNA
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Dr. Mahmood Shivji

Dr. Mahmood Shivji of the Guy Harvey Research Institute and Save Our Seas Shark...
"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.
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Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

Microbes are some of the most important organisms in the sea. These miniscule...
August 2014

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