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A juvenile Calanus glacialis scaled with a pencil tip.

A juvenile Calanus glacialis scaled with a pencil tip.
A juvenile Calanus glacialis scaled with a pencil tip.
A juvenile Calanus glacialis scaled with a pencil tip.
A juvenile Calanus glacialis scaled with a pencil tip.
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Linder, Christopher
A juvenile Calanus glacialis scaled with a pencil tip.
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09/23/2003
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Image of The Day caption:
A juvenile copepod, Calanus glacialis, collected on a recent Arctic cruise, is about the size of the tip of a pencil. The shrimp-like animals are an important part of the food chain in polar regions.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 51, No. 2, pg. 68:
Copepods, next to a pencil tip on the opposite page and in a sample from the Bering Sea below, are tiny shrimplike creatures. They are ubiquitous and provide a major source of food in the ocean. They may also act as hosts for bacteria, including pathogenic ones.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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