Genetic study reveals how anglerfish light up the deep

Anglerfish are famous for their head-mounted bulbs that light up the inky blackness of the deepest oceans, but exactly what's going on in that process is still relatively unknown. To find out, researchers from Cornell University have now sequenced the genome of the bacteria that live inside those lightbulbs, and found a strange story of symbiosis still in progress.

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Category: Science

Tags:

• Animals
• Bacteria
• Cornell University
• Fish
• Genome
• Marine Biology
• Ocean

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