The houting, a fish species that lived in North Sea estuaries and is officially extinct, turns out to be alive and well. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and the Natural History Museum London extracted DNA from ...
Ecology
Oct 13, 2023
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Environmental damage caused by human activity can reduce the number of plant and animal species dramatically. At the same time, very little is known about how biodiversity recovers after ecosystem pollution is curtailed and ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2018
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(Phys.org) —Male sea lampreys may not be the best-looking creatures swimming in our lakes and streams, but they apparently have something going for them that the ladies may find irresistible.
Plants & Animals
Jun 27, 2013
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Biologists at Eawag have identified ten species of whitefish in the lakes of the Reuss river system. Of these, seven have been described as distinct species for the first time—although in two cases this required inspection ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 6, 2023
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At the base of a winding staircase and tucked away in a dimly lit room, about a hundred healthy fish represent the last, best hope for an ancient species on the brink of extinction.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2022
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Research by an international team of scientists has shed new light on the nutritional quality of whitefish, revealing that the tasty fish is best to eat in late summer. Whitefish growth and spawning cycles lead to differences ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2019
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DNA molecules in lake sediment are few and hard bound to particles. This resulted in challenging analyses and required development of new methods, both for extracting sufficiently clean DNA and for the statistical analysis ...
Evolution
Sep 20, 2017
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The discovery of brown (grizzly) bears feeding on migrating broad whitefish in a stream in Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories has researchers advising increased care in petroleum extraction and infrastructure ...
Ecology
Sep 22, 2009
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Humans influence evolution. In the case of whitefish in Swiss lakes, one consequence of this is replacement of a diversity of specialised species by fewer generalists. A recent analysis now suggests that communities of diverse ...
Ecology
Feb 16, 2017
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Every year 340,000 tonnes of usable whitefish by-product are discarded into the sea. But the fisheries industry has now identified ways of halting this practice.
Ecology
Nov 29, 2016
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