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Fishes of the Emirates
Fishes are among the most diverse and abundant groups of animals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and support fisheries that are second most...
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Fishes and Carbon
The ocean is a carbon sink, meaning it removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. Carbon that reaches very deep water or ocean...
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Protandry in Fishes
Protandry (male-to-female sex change) is known in 62 fish species among various higher taxa that are not closely related to each other...
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Meta-analysis reveals weak associations between reef fishes and corals
Habitat associations underpin species ecologies in high-diversity systems. Within tropical, shallow water coral reefs, the relationship between...
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Functional diversity among coral reef fishes as consumers of ectoparasites
Nearly all organisms must cope with parasitic infestation, and most research on parasite ecology in marine systems has focused on the variety of both...
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Predicting how climate change and globally invasive piscivorous fishes will interact to threaten populations of endemic fishes in a freshwater biodiversity hotspot
Freshwater ecosystems are highly vulnerable to the detrimental impacts of both biological invasions and climate change. Piscivorous alien fishes...
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East African cichlid fishes
Cichlid fishes are a very diverse and species-rich family of teleost fishes that inhabit lakes and rivers of India, Africa, and South and Central...
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Global investigation of lake habitat coupling by fishes
Habitat coupling, where consumers acquire resources from different habitats, plays an important role in ecosystem functioning. In this study, we...
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Coastal Fishes in Mangroves
Mangrove forests found in intertidal areas of estuaries in southern Japan, especially in the Ryukyu Islands, provide suitable habitats for a wide...
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Ecology, evolution and conservation of tidepool fishes of the Americas
Intertidal ecology has been considered the cradle of modern marine ecology with insightful investigations on the biological and ecological mechanisms...
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Deep-Sea Fishes
The deep-sea environment has historically been regarded as representative of oceanic connectivity and homogeneity, and the Japanese seas provide an...
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Convergent gene losses and pseudogenizations in multiple lineages of stomachless fishes
The regressive evolution of independent lineages often results in convergent phenotypes. Several teleost groups display secondary loss of the...
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Biogeography of Beringian fishes after the molecular revolution and into the post-genomics era
Significant progress in our knowledge of Beringian biodiversity and in the technologies available for biodiversity research has been made in the...
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Mexican Freshwater Fishes in the Anthropocene
Fishes are the most diverse group of vertebrates with 36,179 valid species, of which 45% of them are freshwater fishes. This freshwater fish...
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The physiological significance of plasma-accessible carbonic anhydrase in the respiratory systems of fishes
Carbonic anhydrase (CA) activity is ubiquitously found in all vertebrate species, tissues and cellular compartments. Most species have...
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The piscine arsenal: an updated review of venomous fishes
Fishes represent the most diverse group of vertebrates, having inhabited the Earth for approximately 480 million years during which they evolved many...
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Neuroendocrinology of Fishes
The chapter includes information regarding neuroendocrinology in fishes particularly on the hypothalamohypophysial system, the organization of the...
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Free amino acids in response to salinity changes in fishes: relationships to osmoregulation
Free amino acids (FAAs) are believed to play important roles in osmoregulation and buffer capacity in some aquatic animals, such as fishes. However,...
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Isolation and Identification of Branchiomyces demigrans from Fishes
For more than past two decades, aquaculture has been one of the most growing activities around the globe. Branchiomyces demigrans is one of the...
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Expanded olfactory system in ray-finned fishes capable of terrestrial exploration
BackgroundSmell abilities differ greatly among vertebrate species due to distinct sensory needs, with exceptional variability reported in the number...
