A few of the eggs kept in the cooler environment (15 degrees Celsius) hatched today. A single clutch of eggs with more than six hatchlings are headed to Stanford University for research purposes, making these octopuses the youngest Cephalopods to be accepted into Stanford. Good luck on your endeavors!
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Jasmine
4/9/2016 08:02:27 pm
That is so cool! What kind of research are they going to do at Stanford?
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Alex Duman
4/17/2016 09:53:12 am
The researchers at Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University will be looking to discover what is within the Octopus bimaculoides transcriptome. The transcriptome is similar to a genome but instead of being a list of all the genes within each cell the transcriptome is all of the mRNA produced by the organism's genes. Thanks for your question.
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