She was the blue crab that would be the foundation of a breakthrough scientific discovery: the first map of the species’s DNA.

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Professor Sook Chung, who has been studying blue crabs, has sequenced the genome of a blue crab for the first time in collaboration with scientist Tsvetan Bachvaroff and their team at UMCES-IMET.