Populations of fishes provide valuable services for billions of people, but face diverse and
interacting threats that jeopardize their sustainability. Human population growth and …

Biological rhythms control the life of virtually all organisms, impacting numerous aspects
ranging from subcellular processes to behaviour. Many studies have shown that changes in …

The conservation and management of endangered species requires information on their
genetic diversity, relatedness and population structure. The main genetic markers applied for …

Anthropogenic activities are greatly altering the habitats of animals, whereby fish are already
encountering several stressors simultaneously. The purpose of the current study was to …

Because of its importance in directing evolutionary trajectories, there has been considerable
interest in comparing variation among genetic variance–covariance (G) matrices. …

White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a fungal disease responsible for decimating many bat
populations in North America. Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the psychrophilic fungus …

Hibernation, the use of prolonged torpor to depress metabolism, is employed by mammals
to conserve resources during extended periods of extreme temperatures and/or resource …

Candidatus Bartonella mayotimonensis was detected in 2010 from an aortic valve sample
of a patient with endocarditis from Iowa, the United States of America. The environmental …

Metabolic rates, including standard (SMR) and maximum (MMR) metabolic rate have often
been linked with life-history strategies. Variation in context- and tissue-level metabolism …

Oxygen availability has been a major force in shaping the physiological evolution of animals.
Under reduced oxygen availability (hypoxia) major changes in gene expression are …