Genomic data ‘catches corals in the act’ of speciation and adaptation
Credit: Forsman, et al. (2020) A new study led by the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Hawai'i Institute of Marine ...
Tag: Marine/Freshwater Biology
Future lake food webs in subarctic have more biomass and contain more omega-3 fatty acids
Credit: Kimmo Kahilainen & Brian Hayden Subarctic regions are facing rapid changes in climate and land-use intensity. An international research ...
Tube-dwelling anemone toxins have pharmacological potential, mapping study shows
Analysis identified 525 genes encoding proteins that act on the nervous system, cardiovascular system and cell walls. One of the ...
Water fleas on ‘happy pills’ have more offspring
All those medicines we take? A lot end up in treated wastewater -- with sometimes surprising resultsCredit: Photo: Per Harald ...
Decadeslong effort revives ancient oak woodland
Credit: Photo by Stephen Packard CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Vestal Grove in the Somme Prairie Grove forest preserve in Cook County, ...
New $53 million grant to create world-wide fleet of robotic floats to monitor ocean health
Credit: Image courtesy of SOCCOM (NSF Award PLR-1425989) MOSS LANDING, CA - On October 29, 2020 the National Science Foundation ...
Male fin whales surprise scientists by swapping songs
Fin whales vary their song structure and pick up new songs from other whale groups, study suggestsCredit: Regina Guazzo Until ...
Sea turtle nesting season winding down in Florida, some numbers are up and it’s unexpected
Green turtle nest counts are the fifth highest recorded since 1982, in a year when their numbers were supposed to ...
SeaAhead and New England Aquarium announce BlueSwell incubator’s first cohort of startups
Six companies focused on ocean sustainability and global resilience will enter the program in NovemberCredit: SeaAhead BOSTON, MASS. (October 28, ...
Coral researchers find link between bacterial genus and disease susceptibility
Credit: (OSU College of Science) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Corals that appear healthy are more prone to getting sick when they're ...
Antarctica yields oldest fossils of giant birds with 21-foot wingspans
Two fossils from a group of extinct seabirds represent the largest individuals ever foundCredit: Copyright Brian Choo Fossils recovered from ...
Biodiversity monitoring programmes need a culture of collaboration
Integration of contributors promotes the quantity and quality of dataCredit: André Künzelmann/UFZ Ecological monitoring is the recording of biological diversity ...
Small mussels in the Baltic are getting even smaller
Credit: Thomas Tranåker Blue mussels in the Baltic Sea are getting smaller with time but bigger in numbers, according to ...
Large tides may have driven evolution of fish towards life on land
Credit: Mattias Green/Bangor University Big tidal ranges some 400 million years ago may have initiated the evolution of bony fish ...
Cauliflower coral genome sequenced
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Hagan Gegner The sequencing of the genome of the cauliflower coral, Pocillopora verrucosa, by an international ...
Robots help to answer age-old question of why fish school
Credit: Dr Liang Li, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) A fish school is a striking demonstration of synchronicity. ...
Elkhorn coral actively fighting off diseases on reef, study finds
Findings showed coral has core immune response regardless of disease typeCredit: Photo: Margaret Miller, SECORE International MIAMI--As the world enters ...
Fipronil, a common insecticide, disrupts aquatic communities in the U.S.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Janet Miller The presence of insecticides in streams is increasingly a global concern, yet information on ...
Fish exposed to even small amounts of estrogen produce fewer males
UC biologist is studying water quality downstream of sewage treatment plantsCredit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative Water tainted with even a small ...
Endangered vaquita remain genetically healthy even in low numbers, new analysis shows
Study found no sign of inbreeding or 'extinction vortex' often linked to small populationsCredit: Vaquita CPR The critically endangered vaquita ...