Scientists believe that a strain of the nasty plant, known scientifically as Caulerpa taxifolia, was first cultivated years ago by biologists at the Stuttgart zoo aquarium in Germany because it made a highly decorative cover for the aquarium's artificial ocean bottom.
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I wonder if you could take a few different freshwater species, hybridize them to improve genetic variation, and passage them for a few generations in increasingly fresh water until you have a new crabby counterpart to Caulerpa taxifolia to unleash on the river ecosystem?
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At the time, the devastation was erroneously attributed to the dubiously nicknamed " killer algae " " Caulerpa taxifolia " ( a non-native Asian tropical green alga first discovered in the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco in 1984 ) spread throughout the coastal sea floor.
