The gene that is mutated in spondo fish is unique to teleosts and the mutant fish's notochord doesn't set up the patterning the way it does in other fish. Rather, its patterning reverts to an ...

EAGLE – When veteran fish biologist John Woodling decided to examine fish inhabiting waters below Front Range sewage plant outlets, what he found shook him and attracted national media attention.There ...

WATERFORD, N.Y. — If Cirque du Soleil on a fully independent, rocking boat sounds like a person’s ideal night out, then Flotsam! River Circus is not for them. By attending their circus on the water, ...

EAGLE – So why should you care that fish living below the discharge streams of wastewater plants are mutants?It’s as simple as knowing the water they live in is the water we depend upon, and that what ...

Zebrafish are one of the most well studied animals on the planet. But how they came by their beautiful black and gold stripes is more of a mystery. Our new research used mathematical modelling – and ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- A chance mutation that led to spinal defects in a zebrafish has opened a little window into our own fishy past. Rising fifth-year Duke graduate student Brianna Peskin, who started the ...