Summary: This article involves the journey of marine biologist and scientist going on an expenditure searching for new life found directly off the Curacao coast. Hidden within the deep reefs, there laid a undiscovered and undocumented species of seabass. The scientist reviewed 650 base pairs of mitochondrial genome sequences before concluding that this is the first time the species had been documented. It is much smaller than the sea bass most people have in mind, and swims with a glittering translucent white with red stripes. With marine scientist suggesting there are still thousands of species out there, this is just a solid start to their future research. While the scientist believed to find a new species, they were unsure for a very long time due to them only finding the larvae at first. As Carol C. Baldwin wrote, “ a historically difficult task at the species level because larvae often bear little morphological resemblance to adults.” This is why the scientist spent so much time bar coding DNA.
Link to Article: http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC4019605&blobtype=pdf
Citation: Baldwin, Carol C, and David G Johnson. Purdue Library, 13 May 2013, europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC4019605&blobtype=pdf.
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