The tiny Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) has always fascinated researchers because, according to the rules of evolution, it ...

The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primitive fish already may have possessed the genetic wiring needed to grow hands and feet well before the appearance of the first animals with limbs roughly 365 million years ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Researchers at the University of Louisville plan to use a $2.3 million grant to study the link between genetics and an increased risk of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in ...

"Wider, appropriate and long-term application of genetic improvement in aquaculture, with a focus on selective breeding, will help boost food production to meet a projected increase in demand for fish ...

Scientists show the extraordinary diversity of cichlid fish in Africa’s Lake Victoria was made possible by ‘genetic recycling’ - repeated cycles of new species appearing and rapidly adapting to ...

The role of fish in research on genetics and evolution / C. Kosswig -- The sex-determining mechanism of the platyfish, Xiphophorus maculatus / K.D. Kallman -- Preliminary report on sex differentiation ...

After years of stable catches, snoek is now more vulnerable than it appears. Declining catches have put pressure on local ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Genetic mutations in ...

Skeletal development in fish is a multifaceted process involving a finely tuned interplay between genetic determinants, nutritional status and environmental conditions. Recent advances have elucidated ...

Rice University computational biologist George Phillips is co-author on a new paper in Science detailing a 10-year effort that determined a variety of fish with electric organs evolved those organs by ...