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Baltimore-Based Researchers Crack Blue Crabs' Genetic Blueprints
Billions of genetic bases were sequenced together to create the perfect DNA of the Maryland blue crab.
BALTIMORE, MD — If you live in this state, chances are you know and adore these little guys.
“All Marylanders love to eat big juicy fat blue crabs,” said Dr. J. Sook Chung, a doctor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
Since 2015 scientists have been studying blue crabs-what diseases impact them, how warmer water temperatures affect them, which females have the best reproductive ability, etc. In preparation for the future as climate change is seen as inevitable.
