The first investigation of microplastics in G. affinis from the Brantas River was carried out in
this study. Microplastics were found at higher concentrations in gambusia fish captured …

Advances in sequencing and informatics and rapidly falling costs have made genome
sequencing projects far more accessible to researchers in all of the life sciences, including …

Molecular ecologists frequently use genome reduction strategies that rely upon restriction
enzyme digestion of genomic DNA to sample consistent portions of the genome from many …

Ionizing radiation resistance occurs among many phylogenetic groups and its mechanisms
remain incompletely understood. Tolerances to acute and chronic irradiation do not always …

Fish are known for the outstanding variety of their sex determination mechanisms and sex
chromosome systems. The western (Gambusia affinis) and eastern mosquitofish (G …

Androgen receptor (AR) agonists have strong endocrine disrupting effects in fish. Most
studies mainly investigate AR binding capacity using human AR in vitro. However, there is …

Our understanding of the mechanisms mediating the resilience of organisms to
environmental change remains lacking. Heavy metals negatively affect processes at all …

To convert external light into internal neural signal, vertebrates rely on a special group of
proteins, the visual opsins. Four of the five types of visual opsins—short-wavelength …

Androgens and estrogens often co-exist in aquatic environments and pose potential risks to
fish populations. However, little is known about the endocrine disrupting effects of the …

The most widespread and numerous inland fish in the world is likely the mosquitofish
(Gambusia affinis and G. holbrooki, Poeciliidae). Much has been written about the basic …