Queen's University Belfast researchers trace octopuses' family tree

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 11:28 in Biology & Nature

Many of the world's deep-sea octopuses evolved from species that lived in the Southern Ocean, according to new molecular evidence reported by researchers at Queen's University Belfast. The findings of a study funded by the National Environment Research Council and led by Dr Louise Allcock at Queen's School of Biological Sciences and colleagues from Cambridge University and British Antarctic Survey were reported at a conference in Spain this week...

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