A new study demonstrates a female preference for rare males using an experiment in a wild population, rather than a laboratory setting. When it comes to choosing a mate, female guppies don't care ...
Pet guppies often jump out of their tanks. One such accident inspired a new study which reveals how guppies are able to jump so far, and suggests why they do it. If you've owned a pet guppy, you know ...
Any owner of a freshwater aquarium likely has had guppies (Poecilia reticulata), those small brightly colored fish with a propensity for breeding. Now guppy populations manipulated in natural habitats ...
When a guppy jumped out of a laboratory tank and nearly landed in her cup of tea, Daphne Soares couldn’t resist putting her current research on hold to investigate this strange leaping behavior. "The ...
Genomic DNA was extracted from caudal finclips using the HotShot method (Truett et al, 2000). We screened four guppies of the Green strain, five guppies of Red strain, five guppies of the Blue strain, ...
A new study of wild guppies could unsettle a decades-old idea about the role of danger in the evolution of aging. Biologists in the 1950s predicted that in a treacherous habitat, creatures would ...
When a guppy jumped out of a laboratory tank and nearly landed in her cup of tea, Daphne Soares couldn’t resist putting her current research on hold to investigate this strange leaping behavior. "The ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When it comes to choosing a mate, female guppies don't care about who is fairest. All that matters is who is rarest. Florida State University Professor Kimberly A. Hughes in the ...
When a guppy jumped out of a laboratory tank and nearly landed in her cup of tea, Daphne Soares couldn’t resist putting her current research on hold to investigate this strange leaping behavior. "The ...