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Kristen Whalen, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, collected gorgonian corals near the Perry Institute of Marine Science in the Exumas, Bahamas, and brought them back to the laboratory to analyze toxic chemical compounds they produce as a defense against animals eating them. Photo by Ann Tarrant, WHOI.


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Posted: August 25, 2008

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