After digging around the three-spined stickleback's genome, researchers discovered extra copies of a gene that makes the omega-3 fatty acid, DHA. The Japan Sea stickleback, meanwhile, only has one ...

The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteusaculeatus) is a teleost fish that has undergone rapid adaptive evolution and speciation within the last 15,000 years. The benthic species has greatly reduced ...

The three-spined stickleback, a species found around much of the globe, is one such finned filial cannibal. The males, who care for the eggs, are known to devour whole or parts of clutches.

When exposed to an increase in the water temperature of their habitat, zebrafish, three-spined stickleback and flounder adapt ...

* Japanese name: Hario * Scientific name: Gasterosteus aculeatus leiurus * Description: Small, perky fish, as adults sticklebacks are typically between 6- and 10-cm long. They have 30 to 40 ...

After the museum processes its newest donation, the collection will include half a million skeletons of three-spined stickleback fish alone. Now, the Harvard Ichthyology collection at the MCZ is ...

Three-spined stickleback fish While murder, mayhem and the laws of nature prevail in his underwater neighbourhood, this unremarkable little fish does not even live up to his name.

The three-spined stickleback is well known on Lake Constance - and its image is anything but good. Among other things, the invasive species is blamed for the decline in whitefish stocks. In this ...

Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) graduate Bonnie May '23 of Oceanside, California, asks us to consider the three-spined stickleback fish when restoring ecosystems. In her article, which appears in the ...

Leeds University scientists have created the first convincing robotic fish that shoals of real fish will accept as one of their own. The robot opens up new possibilities for studying fish behaviour ...