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Science 20 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5823, pp. 382 - 383
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138042
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Rapid Domestication of Marine Species

Carlos M. Duarte, Nùria Marbá, Marianne Holmer

Domestication has had higher success rates in the sea relative to those seen in the long history of land species' domestication. The rise of aquaculture has global consequences.

C. M. Duarte and N. Marbá are at IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, 07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Spain. E-mail: carlosduarte{at}imedea.uib.es M. Holmer is in the Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense M, Denmark.

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