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Stickleback Stock Center at UConn
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The provider of stickleback and related organisms for research and education
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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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Stickleback Reference Diet
StickleStock wants to gauge the interest in the development and use of a reference diet to sell to all researchers for nutrition across threespine stickleback populations. A standard reference diet, a...
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April 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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It’s that time of year, folks! Stickleback News from StickleStock Spring ‘25 is here!

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Stickleback News Spring 2025
is located at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. We hope to keep you informed of events in the Stickleback research community, maintain a website containing protocols shared from th
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April 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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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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How to prepare stickleback muscle tissue for stable isotopes analysis — Stickleback stock center
Dan Bolnick’s lab member created this video on preparing stickleback muscle tissue for stable isotopes analysis. You can click to go to YouTube to view, or watch it here on the page.
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April 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The time has come! Let’s register for Stickleback ‘25! event.fourwaves.com/stickleback-...

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STICKLEBACK 2025: 11th International Congress on Stickleback Behaviour and Evolution
Fourwaves - STICKLEBACK 2025: 11th International Congress on Stickleback Behaviour and Evolution
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February 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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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...
Gnotobiotic Workshop Interest form
Are you interested taking in a workshop on how to use a gnotobiotic protocol to make "germ free" threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)? If so, let us know! This workshop would include: Th...
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December 11, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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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!
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December 5, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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For all you stickleback eyeball fans out there

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Adaptive variation in opsin expression of sticklebacks from different photic habitats - Hydrobiologia
We studied phenotypic and genetic adaptation of the visual system of three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus, from North Uist, Scotland. We quantified differences in opsin gene expression of...
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December 3, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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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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Development of resident and migratory three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus
The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a teleost fish and a model organism in evolutionary ecology, useful for both laboratory and natural experiments. It is especially valued for th...
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November 25, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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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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Alaska Stickleback Restoration Project
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September 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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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/
Populations SSC — Stickleback stock center
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September 13, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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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
STICKLEBACK 2025
Artwork by Olivier Morissette
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August 25, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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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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Stickleback News via StickleStock Fall 2024
is located at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. We hope to keep you informed of events in the Stickleback research community and provide fish for your research outside of the field
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September 3, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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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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About Stickleback — Stickleback stock center
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August 29, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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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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August 29, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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Great new article on FADS2 copy numbers in Southern Greenland threespine stickleback!

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Prickly postglacial pioneers: adaptation of threespine stickleback to freshwater influences fatty acid desaturase (FADS2) copy number in Southern Greenland
The adaptation of marine fish to freshwater environments is a prodigious example of rapid evolution, and yet the underlying ecological causes of genomic and phenotypic differentiation are poorly under...
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August 28, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Found a study on stickleback from near Hamburg on understanding evolutionary responses to hypoxia!

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Non-invasive determination of critical dissolved oxygen thresholds for stress physiology in fish using triple-oxygen stable isotopes and aquatic respirometry
Understanding the critical thresholds of dissolved oxygen (O2) that trigger adaptive physiological responses in aquatic organisms is long hampered by a lack of robust, non-lethal or non-invasive me...
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August 20, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Congrats on improving the ninespine stickleback reference genome! From earlier last month, 98.3% BUSCO completeness.

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Improved assembly of the Pungitius pungitius reference genome
Abstract. The nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) has been increasingly used as a model system in studies of local adaptation and sex chromosome
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July 1, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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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!
June 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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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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June 7, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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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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June 7, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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Stickleback friends! Stickleback 2025 has their website up! See you in Canada next year!

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STICKLEBACK 2025
Artwork by Olivier Morissette
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May 29, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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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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April 23, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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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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April 16, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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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!
March 1, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Tapeworm infection affects sleep behavior in three-spined stickleback https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.30.577962v1
Tapeworm infection affects sleep behavior in three-spined stickleback https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.30.577962v1
Sleep is a highly complex and conserved biological process that affects several body functions and b
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January 31, 2024 at 2:45 AM