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Article: Increasing carbon dioxide threatening major sea food source
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- The Hindustan Times
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- December 11, 2007
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Washington, Dec. 11 -- A leading scientist has warned that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may affect microbial life and deplete a major food source from sea.
Dr Ian Joint from Plymouth Marine Laboratory suggested if microscopic plants eaten by fish are affected by carbon dioxide, this might reduce a major food source from the sea, as fish provides almost a fifth of the animal protein eaten by man.
Dr Joint has been studying and sequencing DNA of different ocean bacteria to find out how they would react to an increase in carbon dioxide.
"So far from one experiment we have sequenced 300 million bases of DNA, ...