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How well do deep-sea animals perform under pressure? - EurekAlert


A multi-institutional team that includes researchers from the University of Delaware, University of California San Diego and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) published a new paper that provides new insight on how deep-sea “comb jellies” called ctenophores adapt and survive at extreme pressures. The work provides new knowledge about how marine organisms can adapt and survive in the ocean, now and potentially into the future. It also may inform what’s known about the human body — in particular, how a specific lipid called plasmalogen found in nerve cells might work in our brains.

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