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Article: BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, FACULTY MEMBER CONDUCT RESEARCH ON A LARGE NUMBER OF GARTER SNAKES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 16, 2008
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Black Hills State University issued the following news release:
Black Hills State University graduate student Jodie Massie, who is completing a research project as a part of her coursework in pursuit of a master's degree in integrative genomics, is making plans to release more than 1,200 snakes to their den after collecting research on the snakes over the last three months.
Massie, her husband and laboratory assistant Ben Blake, and her graduate advisor Dr. Brian Smith released 47 female garter snakes and their offspring, numbering in excess of 1,200 newborns, back to the den site at which they and Kansas State University researcher Dr. Mike Westphal collected the pregnant females in late ...