UWA School of Biological Sciences research fellow Dr Elizabeth Sinclair, from the university's Oceans Institute, said the seagrass plant seems to span 180km.

"We used genetic markers, much like fingerprints are used to identify humans, and what we found was all the diversity in this seagrass comes back to one individual, so they all share pretty much identical genes," she told Gareth Parker on 6PR Breakfast.

UWA School of Biological Sciences research fellow Dr Elizabeth Sinclair, from the university's Oceans Institute, said the seagrass plant seems to span 180km.
"We used genetic markers, much like fingerprints are used to identify humans, and what we found was all the diversity in this seagrass comes back to one individual, so they all share pretty much identical genes," she told Gareth Parker on 6PR Breakfast.

If it's happening in Perth, you'll hear about it first on 6PR Breakfast with Millsy and Karl!

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