UF study: World shark attacks rise slightly but continue long-term dip
...e humans swim as larger numbers of shark and other fish of prey are killed each year, Burgess said. At the... have been provoked by fishermen throwing bloodied fish in the ocean as they cleaned their catch. The Brazilian fatality was a male surfer in waters off the...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...pression has also been seen in Drosophila . Maybe fish are a bit more like flies than mice in this case. NGFI-A and Epigenetic Programming Ian C. G. Weaver, Ana C. D'Alessio, Shelley E. Brown, Ian C. Hellstrom, Sergiy Dymov, Shakti Sharma, Moshe Szyf, and Michael J. Meaney To the list of things f......ome mammals like rats and sheep. In this study the fish were kept in separate tanks so while they could see members of the opposite sex through the glass, they could not use other senses to respond to one another. Dr Walling continues: 'It's well established that sexual maturation in swordtails is highl...Scientists find method to pick noncompetitive animals, improve production
...th a photograph that Muir took of various colorful fish species interacting in a simulated ecosystem at the Monterey, Calif., aquarium. "There is an inherited part of the associations among animals that has profound effects on performance," Muir said. "It's called competition. Animals compete for food, ...Pitt professor contends biological underpinnings
...tivity between human, gorilla, horse, chicken, and fish blood, Zuckerkandl and Pauling deduced "special re...od was most dissimilar, so it was assumed that the fish line diverged long before the other species. Human and gorilla blood were the most similar, meaning ...Plant-grazing fish boost resilience of coral reefs facing stress
...sing cages to experimentally control the access of fish to coral reefs, researchers have assessed the role of fish "grazing" in the ability of reefs to successfully recover from potentially devastating coral-bleachi...Risk of extinction accelerated due to interacting human threats
... for estuaries, mangroves, and coastal and oceanic fish communities." "An accelerated decay in biodiversity due to interacting human-threats has been long suspected among ecologists and conservation biologists," Mora says. "This study reveals the potential for multiple threats to enhance each other effe...For some species, an upside to inbreeding
...upport of this theory. Studying an African chiclid fish species, Pelvicachromis taetiatus, in which both p...usually, active inbreeding is advantageous in this fish species. The findings, reported by Timo Thnken and colleagues of the University of Bonn, appear in t...'Good vibrations' from deep-sea smokers may keep fish out of hot water
...ound and vibrations of black smokers be the reason fish in total darkness avoid being poached by waters as...que acoustic signature," Crone says. If so, and if fish are actually using vent sounds to navigate, then the distinctive tones might be how fish find their ...Endangered shortnose sturgeon saved in Hudson River
...first time in U.S., and probably global, history a fish identified as endangered has been shown to have re.... government. In the past 100 years, 27 species of fish have been died out in North America and four have become extinct. The U.S. government currently prot...'Electric' fish shed light on ways the brain directs movement
...n that takes place between the brain and body. The fish research may contribute to important medical advan...ns' Whiting School of Engineering. In studying the fish and preparing the Neuroscience paper, Cowan teamed up with Eric Fortune, assistant professor of psyc...Researchers probe health and safety impacts of nanotechnology
...ng questions ranging from how nanoparticles affect fish to whether nanoparticles can penetrate skin. The r...per and some other metals are known to be toxic to fish and other aquatic wildlife. UF toxicologist David Barber is investigating whether nanoparticles made...To trust or not to trust your friends
...ave things under control. Not only humans but also fish follow this doctrine as shown by ecologists Jrgen ...ther in the presence or absence of the trout. Nave fish without the predator were only half as successful in finding the food when their group of mates had ...Genes behind animal growth discovered
... aquatic species worldwide. Aquaculture of large fish remains environmentally challenging, Manahan and Hedgecock noted. Another problem is the apparent lack of hybrid vigor in most fish. Even in oysters, the researchers found the rules of hybrid vigor to be more complicated than predicted by classica...Fungal factories may save hemlock forests
...me warblers only nest in hemlocks and the mountain fish depend on the trees to keep streams cool. "See all this white growth?" Costa says in his UVM lab, tracing his finger above the soft flat needles. "That's mycelium and likely as not there are spores at the end of each of those." To the untrained eye...Newly discovered fish named after New York aquarium biologist
...ved the ultimate honor recently, when a freshwater fish discovered on the African island nation of Madagas...ch of Madagascar's wildlife, all of its freshwater fish species are found nowhere else on earth. The newly described black and gold cichlid is about five i...Fish can determine their social rank by observation alone, study finds
A male fish can size up potential rivals, and even rank them f...riment with cichlids (SIK-lids), small territorial fish from Africa."In their natural habitat, male cichlids are constantly trying to ascend socially by bea......us aspects of the physiological adaptations of the fish egg to the marine environment. It is most satisfying that Dr. Finn has been able to tie the threads together in molecular and evolutionary terms with their impressive, comparative sequence alignment study of the involved yolk genes and proteins as pu...