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Piero evofishing at Golten outside Bergen
Piero has started with guppy otoliths (11.09.2013)
Piero Lopez has started his master's project on analysing growth in guppies based on their otoliths.
PhD Dissertation - Nafisa Azmuda (10.09.2013)
Microbial diversity in tropical aquatic environments
PhD Dissertation - Selina Akter (10.09.2013)
Environmental microbiology in Bangladesh
These two immunohistochemistry images show salmon brains. The brightly...
Using salmon to learn more about our brains (04.09.2013)
Learning more about the changes that occur in the brain of salmon during smoltification may give us insight into the plasticity of our own brain.
Bearded goby growth curves. Females are smaller males.
Henrik has successfully completed his master on bearded goby growth (03.09.2013)
Henrik Christiansen, who visited EvoFish last winter to carry out the practical research for his master's project, has now passed the final examination at his home institute at the University of Bremen. EvoFish congratulates!
High densities of ungulates can prevent forest regeneration, as all the young...
Provocative suggestions for wildlife management (13.08.2013)
Why on earth would researchers consider hunting practices that deliberately induce stress and fear?
Digestive tract cross-section from an Atlantic cod larvae
Fish larva research yielding important results (13.08.2013)
Knowing more about fish larva nutrition will have a significant impact on future aquaculture industry practices.
A number of factors influence teleost larva.
Fish larva are fantastically plastic (13.08.2013)
This knowledge will have a significant impact on future aquaculture industry practices.
A Visit from the Minister of the Environment (06.08.2013)
August 1st, 2013 the Norwegian Minister of the Environment, Bård Vegard Solhjell, paid a visit to UiB to hear more about the Norwegian volcanoes that lie beneath the sea surface.
Olav Moberg conducting the experiment to study how growing environment...
Stimulating environment is good for fish (01.08.2013)
A new study, covered by the BBC News and published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, shows that salmon growing in a stimulating environment become smarter.
"Fishing-induced evolution of growth" on the top (13.07.2013)
EvoFish article tops the list of most accessed papers in the journal Marine Ecology in 2012.
Close-ups: Bacteria, viruses and phytoplankton (08.07.2013)
The answers are often found in the details.
Yoann with his catch
Yoann Martin visiting EvoFish (03.07.2013)
EvoFish is happy to welcome Yoann Martin from Montpellier in our rows for this summer!
Fisheries-induced evolution impacts life-history traits and other individual...
Can fisheries-induced evolution shift reference points for fisheries management? (02.07.2013)
A new paper in the ICES Journal of Marine Science discusses whether and how fisheries-induced evolution will shift reference points, a key tool in fisheries management.
EvoClimbing - here Andria on his way up, and Mikko belaying
EvoFishingTrip (01.07.2013)
After five long days of fishing guppies in the lab, EvoFish switched to bigger targets. Sea fishing turned out to be a lot more eventful than guppy fishing.
Andria and uncertainty in Bali sardinella (28.06.2013)
Andria Utama has successfully completed his Master examination. EvoFish congratulates!
Ranga Jayawickrama and Christophe Pelabon discussing during the Master...
Ranga and guppies reach a happy end (08.06.2013)
Ranga Jayawickrama has successfully completed his Master examination. EvoFish congratulates!
How environmental pollutants can threaten our health (07.06.2013)
Even low doses of environmental pollutants can threaten our health. The current epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes in western countries may be directly related to the effects of even small amounts of environmental pollutants on our bodies.

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