Juvenile Antarctic Blackfin Icefish (IMAGE)

University of Oregon

Juvenile Antarctic Blackfin Icefish

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Image focuses on the head of a juvenile Antarctic blackfin icefish caught by University of Oregon researchers along along the Antarctic Peninsula. An international team has completed the genome of the white-blooded fish whose adapted traits would normally signal disease in humans.

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Photo by Thomas Desvignes

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