Fishing can cause slowly reversible changes in gene expression
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 09:02
in Biology & Nature
Cohort after cohort, fishing typically removes large fish from the population and can lead to rapid evolutionary changes in exploited fish populations. A new study from the University of Turku, Finland, shows that removing the largest individuals from the population can lead to massive gene expression changes in an experimentally exploited fish population. The study was funded by the Academy of Finland.