How California's sea stars are evolving past a devastating pandemic
Friday, July 20, 2018 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
In 2012, environmental systems graduate student Lauren Schiebelhut was collecting DNA from ochre sea stars living along the Northern California coast—part of an effort to study genetic diversity in various marine species that serve as indicators of habitat health. She had no idea that just one year later, most of the sea stars would be dead.