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Unique identification tags being attached to eastern elliptio mussels

Detailed Description

Ecologist Carrie Blakeslee is gluing unique identification tags to individual eastern elliptio mussels (Elliptio complanata).  High resolution GPS coordinates are taken for mussels as part of the rangewide mussel genetics study.

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