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Short Note: Antarctic toothfish heads found along tide cracks of the McMurdo Ice Shelf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2011

Stacy Z. Kim
Affiliation:
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA 95062, USA
David G. Ainley*
Affiliation:
H.T. Harvey & Associates, Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
Jean Pennycook
Affiliation:
H.T. Harvey & Associates, Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
Joseph T. Eastman
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA
*
*Corresponding author: dainley@penguinscience.com

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Biological Sciences
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Copyright © Antarctic Science Ltd 2011

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