Most previous studies of adaptive radiation have focused on the effects of environmental factors on diversification. For example, decades of work in ‘model’ systems of adaptive radiation, like ...

A tiny, scaleless, freshwater fish, the highly endangered unarmored threespine stickleback is a fierce protector of its nest, which it defends by dashing forward with gaping mouth and “hackles” raised ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vol. 132, No. 13/14, Second International Symposium on Stickleback Behaviour. Part One (Nov., 1995), pp. 951-961 (11 pages) Reproductive ♂ and ♀ threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus were ...

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 ...

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, ...