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Biology Story

Sex in the Developmental Biology Lab.

03/07/2011

Did you know that 70% of sea urchin genes have a human counterpart? Ask us about it.

Left: Mating Pair - Bearded Dragons, Bob & Shirley (Dr. Mass's Herp Collection). Middle: Axolotl (DevBio Lab colony). Right: Dicty - stained fruting body: Student's stained the anterior and posterior parts of a dicty slug with two different colored dyes to see which parts of the slug would become which parts of the fruiting body

Sea Urchin Day

Left: Students spawning sea urchins. Right: Brenna Fearey preparing to spawn an urchin.

Left: Francine Orekoya & Quincy Stillaire obtaining urchin sperm. Right: Joelle Odin and Alysia Lozado Spawning (Urchins).

Spawning Urchins Left: Joelle and Alysia. Right: Jackie Simonson & Sarah Benkwitt.

Left: Eric Werner (hat) attempting to obtain urchin sperm. Right: "Now what?" Crystal Okereka and Anna Anandan.

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