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A Marine 'Infochemical,' Crucial to the Air and Sea (2 of 2)

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A Marine 'Infochemical,' Crucial to the Air and Sea (2 of 2)

image: This graphic shows the swimming trajectories of microzoplankton Oxyrrhis marina in response to a pulse of DMSP (yellow band). The study, by Dr. Justin R. Seymour of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues is titled, "Chemoattraction to Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Throughout the Marine Microbial Food Web." view more 

Credit: Image courtesy of J. Seymour (University of Technology, Sydney), R. Simo, T. Ahmed and R. Stocker


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