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02-12-2011, 08:37 PM
Not far from milepost 200 on a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway near the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area is a humble water hole known in some biology circles as Slimy Log Pond. It was from this inauspicious pool that a water flea ( Daphnia pulex ) dubbed The Chosen One was plucked in 2000, and became the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced. [More] (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=daphnia-genome)

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