It was great talking with y'all about our wonderful research fish!
We have a very important question for stickleback users: Do we have a need for a Stickleback Reference Diet, and would we use it as a community?
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It’s that time of year, folks! Stickleback News from StickleStock Spring ‘25 is here!
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We have a new video to share! How to prepare stickleback muscle tissue for stable isotopes analysis from the Bolnick lab space at UConn.
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The time has come! Let’s register for Stickleback ‘25! event.fourwaves.com/stickleback-...
email stickleback2025BMSC@gmail.com with any questions!
The Stickleback Stock Center, with Dr. Kat Milligan-McClellan @napaaqtuk.bsky.social, is working to plan a Gnotobiotic Workshop! Please fill out our form if you have any interest in germ-free stickleback and the many ways to manipulate them. Please share. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Hey stickleback researchers: a quick reminder that there is a slack channel to connect with colleagues and potential collaborators, seek advice, etc. It is very creatively called "Stickleslack". Reach out to @sticklestock.bsky.social or @ksamuk.bsky.social to get added to the channel!
I just discovered this article in preprint by Barnes et al. 2024 where figures 3 and 4 have AWESOME real-time development photos of stickleback embryos! Enjoy and share for your lab to learn!
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I am part of an international group of scientists who have been following the evolution of several populations of stickleback for 6 years from the aspect of the fish, environment and microbiome. If you want to learn more about the project, visit our website! 🧪🔬🧫
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Does your research want to include crosses between two British Columbia freshwater populations or a combination of a female anadromous population with a male lake population? Visit our populations site to see the few crosses available! www.sticklestock.com/populations/
The next International Stickleback Conference will be in late July 2025 at Bamfield Marine Science Center on Vancouver Island. Conference information can be seen here: www.stickleback-2025.ca
It’s that time of year!
Stickleback News via StickleStock Fall ’24 is out! Share out newsletter with your research team, fellow Stickleback enthusiasts, and your grandma!
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Do you work with various populations of stickleback and want to share where you research with the our Stickleback community? I added a form under our map to share this location data with us! Batch data accepted in the boxes! Names and location data required.
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Can we get some stickleback VR for Stickleback 2025? Here’s a different side of research meets art performance! (One digital artists spoke of the tanks: You don’t need to exist for the fish to continue swimming around—I think we know this well with our research fish
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Great new article on FADS2 copy numbers in Southern Greenland threespine stickleback!
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Found a study on stickleback from near Hamburg on understanding evolutionary responses to hypoxia!
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Congrats on improving the ninespine stickleback reference genome! From earlier last month, 98.3% BUSCO completeness.
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Over 1,500 eggs coming back from populations around Anchorage with the stock center manager and Dr. Kat! We added Big Lake to our research sites this year! Dr. Dan already brought hundreds from Vancouver Island at the beginning of the month! Updates to come soon!
Is stickleback research new territory for you? We have a small window into why many researchers work with stickleback on our homepage. Visit to learn about stickleback popularity, genetic and phenotypic variety, and more!
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Have you seen Dr. Dolph Schluter’s video on Stickleback and their Ancient Genes? Check it out on out “About Stickleback” page below the populations map!
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Stickleback friends! Stickleback 2025 has their website up! See you in Canada next year!
www.stickleback-2025.ca
Is your team ready for field work this coming season? Here is our 2024 idea guide with videos and protocols links to help your team prepare!
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🐊 Calling all PhD students interested in ecological systems! Join SFI in Sète, France this October 17-31 for the Complexity-GAINs International School. No tuition; room & board provided.
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Welcome to StickleStock’s Newsletter!
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Head to Sticklestock.com to sign up at the bottom of the homepage for our periodic updates and Stickleback News from StickleStock!
Tapeworm infection affects sleep behavior in three-spined stickleback https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.30.577962v1
Happy Art Friday!
There are many methods for decapsulating and hatching Artemia—Hatch Brine Shrimp used to feed Stickleback as hatchling and beyond under human care.
This guide goes into detail about different eggs available, hatching methods, and hatchery setup!
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Are you new to having a research center? Here is your Welcome Packet showing you what you need for happy research fish!
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