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Marsh sentinels

Postdoctoral scholar Adam Reitzel collecting the “starlet sea anemone”, Nematostella vectensis, at Great Sippewissett Marsh. Adam and other members of Ann Tarrant’s lab in the Biology department are interested in understanding the ecology and evolution of genes for responding to stress, by using this little cnidarian as an environmental sentinel and a comparative model to other animals.
(Photo by Lars Behrendt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)