Then, they were temporarily housed at SeaWorld Orlando, Mote Marine Laboratory, and the Florida Aquarium, NOAA said in a press release Wednesday.

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The director of Mote Marine Laboratory's Center for Shark Research in Sarasota, Robert Hueter, spent five years studying samples from a variety of shark species caught off the coasts of Florida, including the two most-popular commercially-caught species.

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Dr Shimomura, who worked at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, isolated this protein in 1962.

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NOC, based in Southampton, was formed in April 2010 by the merger of two marine science institutions - the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory in Liverpool and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

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