World Aquaculture Society '25 Stickleback Workship

Below are links to articles sited from Holly Valentine’s presentation from World Aquaculture Society 2025’s Aquatic Model Organism Husbandry workshop sponsored by Aquaneering.

• Adaptive Radiation

  Bell, M. A.; Foster, S. A.

  The evolutionary biology of the threespine stickleback

  Oxford University Press, New York (1994)

  https://www.mpg.de/9269898/adaptation-speciation-mechanisms-sticklebacks#:~:text=There%20are%2C%20however%2C%20remarkable%20exceptions,form%20a%20new%20hybrid%20school.

• Fossil Record

  Evolutionary Biology for the 21st Century

  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001466

• Ecotypes

  McKinnon and Rundle 2002 TRENDS in Ecology & Evolution

• Tinkering with the Axial Skeleton: Insights from an Evolutionary “Supermodel”

  Windsor Aguirre

  https://ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2015/08/tinkering-with-axial-skeleton-insights.html

• Stickleback Development Timeline

  Induction of diploid gynogenesis in an evolutionary model organism, the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21910888/

• Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids

  Copy number variation of a fatty acid desaturase gene Fads2 associated with ecological divergence in freshwater stickleback populations

  Biology Letters. 2021 Aug 25;17(8):20210204. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0204

• Stickleback and Tapeworm

  Characterization of Stickleback Immune Modulation by the Cestode Schistocephalus solidus: Divergent In Vitro and In Vivo Responses

  Collias, Alexandra.  University of Massachusetts Lowell ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  2024. 31146495.

• Germfree Fish Derivation

  Derivation of Gnotobiotic Stickleback Fish V.2 by Dr. Kat Milligan-McClellan

  dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n2bvjrd6plk5/v2

  https://www.protocols.io/view/derivation-of-gnotobiotic-stickleback-fish-n2bvjrd6plk5/v2

• Stickleback Genome Browser

  https://stickleback.genetics.uga.edu/