red devil vampire crab (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

red devil vampire crab

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The red devil vampire crab is Watson-Zink’s primary research organism. She plans to develop them into a new experimental model system to explore terrestrial transitions and to validate the functions of interesting genes in land crabs. 

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Gonzalo Giribet and Victoria Watson-Zink

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