Climate change has surprising effect on endangered naked carp
...ter diversion and climate change. Endangered naked carp migrate annually between freshwater rivers, where ...adjustments to the carps' metabolic rate. Naked carp take seven to ten years to reach reproductive size. Although historically abundant, overfishing and ...USGS at Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
...ate habitats are degraded. Largemouth bass, common carp and channel catfish from the Gila had elevated levels of organochlorine pesticides, many of which have been associated with estrogen-like effects in fish. Reproductive biomarkers, including gonad size and hormone concentrations, were notably differen...Virus may control Australia's "river rabbit"
...ged in Israel in 1998*, caused mass mortalities in carp in the US, the UK, Israel, the Netherlands, Japan ...eness of Koi herpesvirus in controlling strains of carp present in Australia and will examine whether the virus will have any impact on certain native fauna...Remarkable physiology allows crucian carp to survive months without oxygen
...er temperature during the fall prompts the crucian carp to store vast amounts of glycogen in its brain to ...ygen (anoxic). Glycogen, an energy supply that the carp brain uses to survive anoxia, was 15 times higher in February, compared to brain glycogen content in...Common carp sheds new light on surviving in extreme environments
...es. New findings of myglobin levels in the common carp could help scientists understand how humans could ...vital information on how living systems work. The carp is an unusual animal because it routinely copes with very challenging conditions that would harm or ...ESA calls for federal leadership to control invasive species
From combustible cheat grass to voracious carp to the West Nile virus, harmful, non-native species are spreading into U.S. lands and waters at an accelerating pace. Their damage to economic activity, ecosystems, and human welfare is accumulating. Without an improved national strategy based on s...Native plant eaters have gourmet palates
...outheastern United States and one species of grass carp that had previously been introduced from Asia to c...s preferred the exotic meals. But the exotic grass carp had no preferences. It shares little evolutionary history with either native or exotic plants, so es...Cytoplasm affects the number of vertebrae in carp-goldfish clones
... The seven offspring, cloned from nuclei of common carp and egg cytoplasm of goldfish, were virtually iden...the body and hence the number of vertebrae. Common carp have 33 to 36 vertebrae in their backbones, while goldfish have 26 to 28. Six of the seven cloned fi...