Copepod Close Up (IMAGE)

University of Gothenburg

Copepod Close Up

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Copepods are the world's most common animals. In the summer there can be more than a hundred per liter of seawater. The article shows how their unique smell causes many of the ocean's smallest inhabitants to mobilize their defenses to avoid being eaten. Some produce toxins, other turn up their light production or bioluminescence and still others shrink to evade detection.

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Erik Selander

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