{"id":5948,"date":"2017-12-12T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2017-12-12T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:05:24","slug":"threespine-stickleback-can-learn-to-adapt-to-low-oxygen-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/threespine-stickleback-can-learn-to-adapt-to-low-oxygen-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"Threespine stickleback can learn to adapt to low-oxygen environments <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As aquatic oxygen levels decrease with the changing climate, marine and lakewater species face a challenging task of adapting to hypoxic environments &#8211; or risk perishing. To examine potential for adaptation, researchers investigated two populations of threespine stickleback: one from a lake that naturally experiences seasonal long-term hypoxia and the other one that does not. They discovered that fish from the hypoxic lake used an ability to depress their metabolism to achieve a tolerance that was twice as effective as the stickleback from the non-hypoxic lake. Study authors say that, since these two communities have been isolated for about 11,000 years, this shows a potential for rapid evolution of tolerance for low-oxygen environments in this fish species.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew D. Regan, Ivan S. Gill, Jeffrey G. Richards<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Regan, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Email: regan@zoology.ubc.ca<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/13\/11\/20170392\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>Biology Letters<\/em> on November 1, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As aquatic oxygen levels decrease with the changing climate, marine and lakewater species face a challenging task of adapting to hypoxic environments &#8211; or risk perishing. To examine potential for adaptation, researchers investigated two populations of threespine stickleback: one from a lake that naturally experiences seasonal long-term hypoxia and the other one that does not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3219,917,2812,3227,2587],"class_list":["post-5948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-adaptation","tag-evolution","tag-hypoxia","tag-low-oxygen-environments","tag-threespine-stickleback"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6478503399_f83207ae40_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1xW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}