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Thus, studies of Runx genes in sea urchins, tunicates, and nematodes are likely to highlight primitive, pan-bilaterian regulatory functions of this family of genes in the cell biology of animal development.
Sheepshead minnows, inland silversides, mysids, and sea urchins may be purchased from commercial suppliers.
With perverse anti-insight, Hoffman has updated the play to a sunny, atmospherically untroubled Tuscany in the 19 th century and has filled his frames with scampering street urchins and matrons kneading dough.
EMSL-Cincinnati has found FORTY FATHOMS® artificial sea salts suitable for maintaining and spawning the sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus, and for its use in the sheepshead minnow larval survival and growth test, suitable for maintaining and spawning the inland silverside, Menidia beryllina, and for its use in the inland silverside larval survival and growth test, suitable for culturing and maintaining mysid shrimp, Mysidopsis bahia, and its use in the mysid shrimp survival, growth, and fecundity test, and suitable for maintaining sea urchins, Arbacia punctulata, and for its use in the sea urchin fertilization test.
But they would prefer to be trekking across the wildflower-pocked tundra, wading through 35-degree glacial muck, spending hours -looking, or exploring tidal pools for sunflower stars and brittle stars, spiny sea urchins, mussel worms, anemones, and blennies, as curious and brightly colored as any on a tropical coral reef.