Rapid Mutations Allowed Fish to Resist Pollution (5 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Rapid Mutations Allowed Fish to Resist Pollution (5 of 8)

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Mature Atlantic tomcod at a NOAA rearing facility in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Feb. 17, 2011, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Isaac Wirgin, at the New York University School of Medicine in Tuxedo, N.Y., and colleagues was titled, "Mechanistic Basis of Resistance to PCBs in Atlantic Tomcod from the Hudson River."

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