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 ...

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 ...

Annual killifish are an excellent animal model for research on interactions between genes and the environment during development. A new article describes the development of one particular South ...

As a postdoc at McGill University in Montreal, Emily Standen—who’s now based at the University of Ottawa—raised 111 two-month-old bichirs in laboratory environments that forced them to use their fins ...

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