Japanese scientists have successfully bred a type of salmon using surrogate parents of a different species, in a breakthrough that could help preserve endangered creatures, the chief researcher said Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
Jan 15, 2013
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Salmon runs are notoriously variable: strong one year, and weak the next. New research shows that the same may be true from one century to the next.
Ecology
Jan 14, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- Because the gradual increase in temperatures worldwide is still relatively new, researchers have had difficulty in finding examples of genetic changes in organisms that are adapting to the warmer temperatures. ...
The phrase "no guts, no glory" doesn't just apply to athletes who are striving to excel.
Plants & Animals
Sep 15, 2011
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Salmon know when their most common predator is around, because they can tell that it's eaten salmon before, new research shows. Young fish can do this too, even if they've never encountered that particular predator before.
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2011
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Evolution has made its mark --- large and small -- in innumerable patterns of life. New research from Brown University shows chewing has evolved too.
Plants & Animals
Jun 27, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neala Kendall, a graduate student from the University of Washington in Seattle, after studying cannery data on sockeye salmon harvested from Bristol Bay in Alaska, has discovered that the length of the average ...
Massive die-offs among Canada's wild sockeye salmon could be due to a genetic flaw that causes immune weakness and could make viruses lethal, researchers said Thursday.
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2011
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A new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada.
Ecology
Dec 13, 2010
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The review process being used by the Food and Drug Administration to assess the safety of a faster-growing transgenic salmon fails to weigh the full effects of the fish's widespread production, according to analysis by a ...
Environment
Nov 18, 2010
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