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Baltimore-Based Researchers Crack Blue Crabs' Genetic Blueprints

Billions of genetic bases were sequenced together to create the perfect DNA of the Maryland blue crab.

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Information from Maryland researchers will eventually be published and shared with the public so crabbers, environmentalists and the public can learn from it and scientists can study it for generations to come.
Information from Maryland researchers will eventually be published and shared with the public so crabbers, environmentalists and the public can learn from it and scientists can study it for generations to come. (WJZ)

BALTIMORE, MD — If you live in this state, chances are you know and adore these little guys.

“All Marylanders love to eat big juicy fat blue crabs,” said Dr. J. Sook Chung, a doctor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

Since 2015 scientists have been studying blue crabs-what diseases impact them, how warmer water temperatures affect them, which females have the best reproductive ability, etc. In preparation for the future as climate change is seen as inevitable.

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