The traditional recipe for publication of a genome sequence goes something like this: one part 'biology' (an often flowery description of the distinctive aspects of the organism whose genome has been ...

Earth is home to a remarkable variety of organisms, which come in all shapes and sizes. Many species have developed special traits to ensure their survival and reproduction in a particular environment ...

It’s got a Dr. Seuss name and a prehistoric appearance, but the threespine stickleback of Lake Washington is opening new frontiers of scientific understanding about how animals adapt to rapid ...

Abstract The ability of various vertebrates to perceive visual information in the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum (300–400 nm) is receiving increasing interest. To date, many of ...

As fish in different parts of the world adapted to live in fresh water, the same sites in the genome were changed time and again. Investigator, Stanford University As fish in different parts of the ...

Lugging around a tapeworm that’s one-third your body weight can be a real drag. So threespine stickleback fish evolved resistance to tapeworms — but resistance has costs of its own, a team of ...

Some stickleback fish fathers can have long-term effects on the behavior of their offspring, researchers report. The most attentive fish dads cause their offspring to behave in a way that makes them ...

Stickleback fish are able to adapt their vision to new environments in less than 10,000 years, a blink of the eye in evolutionary terms, according to new research. Stickleback fish are able to adapt ...

1. Individual-and population-level variation in body size and growth often correlates with many fitness traits. Predation and food availability are expected to affect body size and growth as important ...

March 23 (UPI) --Epigenetic changes, not beneficial genetic mutations, are the best hope for species as they adapt to climate change. In a new study, scientists used a fish model from the Baltic Sea, ...

Three-spine sticklebacks aren’t as pretty as many aquarium fish, and anglers don’t fantasize about hooking one. But biologists treasure these small fish for what they are revealing about the genetic ...