Joshua , a conservation biologist, writes, ” This was a tattoo I got of one of the species that I did my Ph.D. on. The fish is Halichoeres hortulanus and the DNA sequence is the primer for one of the genes I used to study the fish (the mitochondrial control region).”

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Originally published October 16, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.