Waters off Washington state only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
...nd rockfish. "It's like looking at an overcrowded aquarium in an expensive Japanese restaurant," he says. The Washington sponge reefs are each hundreds of feet in length and width. It's possible that the state has reefs comparable to the Canadian reefs that are miles in length, Johnson says. The glass spon...Limpets reveal possible fate of cold-blooded Antarctic animals
...AS) Rothera Research Station and in the laboratory aquarium reveal that these animals cannot make proteins the building blocks of growth - efficiently. Lead author Dr Keiron Fraser from BAS says, This is an important step forward in our understanding of the complex biodiversity of Antarcticas unique ecosys...Fish can determine their social rank by observation alone, study finds
...ar square tank and in a new setting--a rectangular aquarium with three adjacent compartments. In each test, a bystander was placed in the middle compartment between two sets of rivals that he had never seen together--A and E (AE), and B and D (BD). At this point in the experiment, all the rivals had recovered...First Biodiversity Census of coral reef ecosystems in the NW Hawaiian Islands
...y not be as charismatic as monk seals, or colorful aquarium fish (until you look under a microscope), they form the complex tapestry that supports the existence of the larger animals, and changes in their abundance or diversity are often the first indicators of environmental impacts or changes. These groups o...Renewed dolphin slaughter prompts new campaign
... and Futo, a consortium of scientists and zoo and aquarium professionals has launched a campaign to end the practices through public awareness and by appealing to the government of Japan to put an end to the hunts. The "Act for Dolphins" campaign--which includes members from The New York Aquarium, Emory Univ...A humble aquarium fish may be the key to new therapies for birth defects
Nashville, Tenn. -- A humble aquarium fish may be the key to finding therapies capable of preventing the structural birth defects that account for one out of three infant deaths in the United States today. That is one of the implications of a new study published online August 8 in the ...Underwater robots work together without human input
...tists have mapped in Monterey Bay (imagine a giant aquarium with porous walls that is 20 kilometers wide, 40 kilometers long, and roughly 400 meters deep). On a day-to-day basis the control algorithms allow the gliders to make decisions independently about how to alter their course -- without any input fro...2.5M boost for marine biology in Liverpool
...nvestigate marine ecosystems and fisheries. A new aquarium will also be constructed at the University, housing a variety of marine species including crabs, worms, marine snails and anemones. New laboratories will facilitate a diverse range of experimental projects. Seven new academic posts have been cr...... released during transport; they can introduced by aquarium owners who dump unwanted fish and plants into the wild; and they can be intentionally or accidentally released by seafood handlers and consumers. The northern snakehead fish and the Chinese mitten crab are two examples of seafood that were released o...Colorful, rare-patterned male guppies have survival advantage in the wild
Any owner of a freshwater aquarium likely has had guppies (Poecilia reticulata), those small brightly colored fish with a propensity for breeding. Now guppy populations manipulated in natural habitats in Trinidad have taught researchers an evolutionary lesson on the survival of a rare...Female guppies risk their lives to avoid too much male attention
...ty of Leeds suggest that female guppies, a popular aquarium fish, may risk their lives to avoid too much attention from males. Observing wild population of guppies in the rainforest of Trinidad, the researchers found that female guppies swim in habitats that contain few males but many predators. "Male guppie...Some like it hot: Worms at deep-sea vents favor a fiery 45-55C
...laced them within a special high-pressure seawater aquarium with a sharp temperature gradient, these worms chose to remain at roughly 50 degrees Celsius for the duration of a seven-hour experiment. "This is far longer than animals have survived other thermo-tolerance studies, where scientists exposed individu...Fish gene sheds light on human skin color variation
With help from a common aquarium pet and a recently released online database of hum...Cheng began a decade ago using zebrafish, a common aquarium pet that is widely used as a model organism for studying the genetics of development. The zebrafish ...Scripps Nierenberg Prize awarded to nature filmmaker Sir David Attenborough
...orough. The Nierenberg Prize presentation is free; aquarium admission is not included. Seating and parking for the presentation are limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. "It is a pleasure to award the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest to Sir David Attenborough, w...DOE JGI announces 2006 Community Sequencing Program portfolio
... Lake Malawi in east Africa. Popular food fish and aquarium specimens, Cichlid fish have undergone an astonishingly rapid proliferation of species from this evolutionarily fertile source. Over the last two million years, some 700 species have emerged from the depths of Lake Malawi. Other CSP projects of note...Certain fish have a special mating preference
...tofish females, where each female was placed in an aquarium having two videos playing side-by-side at one end of the aquarium. One video was of a male mosquitofish with an average gonopodium; the other was of a male with a 15 percent larger one. This forced a female to make a pre-mating sexual selection. A...Undesirable expatriates: Preventing the spread of invasive animals
Reconsider relocating aquarium fish into your backyard pond. Restrain yourself from ordering exotic pets off the Internet, no matter how interesting they might look in the pictures. And vote for politicians that encourage sound port inspection. Because, according to recent Proceed...Marine researchers deliver blueprint for rescuing America's troubled coral reefs
...ent. "Short-lived species, like lobster, conch and aquarium fish will recover and generate income in just a few years," they noted. "Longer-lived species will recover, water quality will improve and the ecosystem will be more resilient to unforeseen future threats. Ultimately, we will have increased tourism a...'From the Sidelines' describes the making of a scientific revolution
... cloning. He was the first to realize that a small aquarium fish (Brachydanio rerio) could provide a model system for vertebrate developmental biology. Many of the strains of zebrafish produced in the Streisinger lab still are alive and well in labs around the globe. Streisinger's earlier research made major ...... technology provided by the zebra fish. This small aquarium fish can be used to aid the study of the function of human genes. That this investment is reaping returns is evident from the study that VIB researchers at the Catholic University of Leuven are publishing today in the renowned journal Nature . They ...