Seth Rudman

Stickleback

Fish chemical cocktail reveals how a single gene may alter an aquatic ecosystem

Variations in a single gene in tiny stickleback fish alter how they interact with their environment and potentially trigger changes across an ecosystem, a new study from the University of British Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania finds.

Feb 6, 2019

Humans speeding up evolution by causing extinction of ‘younger’ species

Humans speeding up evolution by causing extinction of ‘younger’ species

Just three years after crayfish were introduced to a B.C. lake, two species of fish that had existed in the lake for thousands of years were suddenly extinct. But it’s what took their place that has scientists fascinated.

Feb 23, 2016