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Some new videos, the Fingered Dragonet
It’s been a while since we had a new video to post, and this will be a quick one, but it is a pretty interesting fish. We recently got some new fish in the lab, including some dragonets from the … Continue reading
Posted in benthic, fish feeding, high speed video
Tagged Dactylopus dactylopus, fingered dragonet
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Stickleback camouflage
This week, the Wainwright blog returns to a topic of perennial interest, the threespine stickleback. I will discuss a recent paper from the Schluter lab at UBC on color plasticity and background matching in stickleback. To set the stage, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in benthic, ecology, limnetic, plasticity, stickleback, sticklematt, Uncategorized
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Stickleblog: 80s stickleback (but without the crazy hair)
Back in the early 80s, Don McPhail worked on sticklebacks in Vancouver Island, and specifically in some intriguing lakes that had not one but two different species of sticklebacks in them. Ten years later, McPhail and Schluter would build on … Continue reading
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Stickleblog: Sticklebacks (in) rock
There are millions of sticklebacks across the globe, but you can also find sticklebacks in fossil form. The scientific name for most fossil sticklebacks is Gasterosteus doryssus, but morphologically this fossil “species” belongs within the threespine stickleback complex. One Miocene … Continue reading
Stickleblog: Sticklebacks at work
Today’s Stickleblog deals with a recent paper in the journal Nature by Luke Harmon(a contributor on the blog Dechronization – check it out!), Dolph Schluter, and a number of other folks. The paper features the threespine stickleback species pairs, which … Continue reading