The extensive advances during the past decade in our understanding of genes and genomes have yielded several new areas of research. One of these, environmental genomics, explores how the genome ...

University of Victoria (UVic) biologists have discovered that even closely related fish species make unique and distinctive ...

Researchers have developed a model to assess how dams affect the viability of sea-run fish species that need to pass dams as they use both fresh and marine waters during their lifetimes. The aim is to ...

A team of researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz demonstrated the potential effectiveness of a method for estimating how many juvenile fish will become ...

A rare genetic defect that affects the so-called ALG2 gene can cause serious metabolic diseases in humans. Until now, its rareness and complexity made it difficult to study this congenital ...

A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...