Science news articles about 'sea lamprey'

... where lampreys aggressively consume trout, salmon, sturgeon and other game fish. "Since the introduction of sea lamprey to the Great Lakes, the fisheries have been devastated, and as a result, there ...

... either when it is no longer needed or to prevent abnormal growth. The alteration of the sea lamprey genome and of invertebrates that restructure their genome appears to be tightly regulated, ...

... management control method by 2010 as a milestone for its sea lamprey management program," Li said. "The commission ... million to $15 million per year on lamprey control. "It made sense for us to focus ...

EAST LANSING, Mich., May 17 (UPI) -- Researchers say they have begun placing a pheromone in Michigan streams in an attempt to lure female sea lampreys into traps.

... team at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine may lead to a contraceptive for female lampreys - a jawless fish considered an invasive pest species in the Great Lakes region of the ...

... light. Further experiments can then test if the sea urchin genes are coding for a sensory protein ... Woodcroft and Bernard M. Degnan Insights from a sea lamprey into the evolution of neural crest gene ...

The sea lamprey can’t go home again, and researchers think they know why.