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Biology major Elizabeth Young, Georgia Southern, made some new friends on campus while searching for zooplankton in Lake Ruby. The tiny organisms are used to study the feeding behavior of wild guppies and how different phenotypes in the guppies affect their overall evolution and ecology.

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