Stickleback Stock Center at UConn
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The provider of stickleback and related organisms for research and education
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Exciting microbiome work! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
De novo whole-genome assembly of the Aeromonas veronii strains KMM289, KMM358, and KMM366 isolated from threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in Alaska, USA | Microbiology Resource Announcem...
Aeromonas veronii is a gram-negative bacterium found in aquatic environments and associated with infections
in aquatic organisms (1, 2). Its persistence across diverse ecological niches highlights bac...
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September 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Exciting microbiome work! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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In case you missed it, looks like a very interesting paper: Rare jackpot individuals drive rapid adaptation in Threespine Stickleback
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rare jackpot individuals drive rapid adaptation in Threespine Stickleback - Nature Communications
Recombination can speed up adaptation by bringing beneficial alleles together. However, this study shows rapid adaptation in Threespine Stickleback fish depends more on the initial frequency of allele...
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August 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
In case you missed it, looks like a very interesting paper: Rare jackpot individuals drive rapid adaptation in Threespine Stickleback
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fresh off the press stickleback work in some of our favorite locations around Anchorage, AK. We<3 RS and Cheney from our field collections!
Part of my PhD work is now published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Genomic Signatures of Selection Are Enriched in Differentially Expressed Genes in Sticklebacks Adapting to Contrasting Environments
Abstract. Whole genome scans have identified numerous adaptive alleles in many species; however, linking these alleles to specific phenotypes remains a maj
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September 21, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Fresh off the press stickleback work in some of our favorite locations around Anchorage, AK. We<3 RS and Cheney from our field collections!
Disentangling unique site-specific and shared habitat-level adaptation in a classic system of repeated evolution— just dropped this month! Read about your favorite “classic system of repeated evolution” ye ole stickleback!
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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September 18, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Disentangling unique site-specific and shared habitat-level adaptation in a classic system of repeated evolution— just dropped this month! Read about your favorite “classic system of repeated evolution” ye ole stickleback!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
From the other side of the big, salty pond:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
gosh, what an unfortunate place to feature the journal front page instead of an article photo.. it is in fact about threespine stickleback!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
gosh, what an unfortunate place to feature the journal front page instead of an article photo.. it is in fact about threespine stickleback!
Proteomic Differences Reveal Early Development of Contrasting Energetic Strategies Between Divergent Migratory Ecotypes in Three‐Spined Stickleback
Divergence in migratory behaviour represents a striking and common axis of life-history variation in animals. Plastic changes in adult animals in preparation for migration are well known, but the dif...
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August 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
From the other side of the big, salty pond:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
gosh, what an unfortunate place to feature the journal front page instead of an article photo.. it is in fact about threespine stickleback!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
gosh, what an unfortunate place to feature the journal front page instead of an article photo.. it is in fact about threespine stickleback!
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A recent paper by García-Elfring, Paccard & Barrett documents genomic differentiation between marine & freshwater threespine stickleback populations across Atlantic Canada, revealing signatures of parallel adaptation despite differences in population history. Read the paper: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Genomic Patterns of Parallel Divergence Across Demographically Heterogeneous Stickleback Populations in Eastern Canada
Abstract. The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a key model in evolutionary genetics, particularly for studies of parallel evolution, yet
doi.org
August 11, 2026 at 7:50 PM
A recent paper by García-Elfring, Paccard & Barrett documents genomic differentiation between marine & freshwater threespine stickleback populations across Atlantic Canada, revealing signatures of parallel adaptation despite differences in population history. Read the paper: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
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📢 Save the Date!
The 12th Aquatic Models for Human Disease Conference (AQMHD)
🗓 October 17–21, 2026
📍 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Theme- Diving Deeper into Disease Biology: Emerging Models in Human Health
#AQMHD #ModelOrganism #MBL #DiseaseBiology
The 12th Aquatic Models for Human Disease Conference (AQMHD)
🗓 October 17–21, 2026
📍 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Theme- Diving Deeper into Disease Biology: Emerging Models in Human Health
#AQMHD #ModelOrganism #MBL #DiseaseBiology
March 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM
📢 Save the Date!
The 12th Aquatic Models for Human Disease Conference (AQMHD)
🗓 October 17–21, 2026
📍 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Theme- Diving Deeper into Disease Biology: Emerging Models in Human Health
#AQMHD #ModelOrganism #MBL #DiseaseBiology
The 12th Aquatic Models for Human Disease Conference (AQMHD)
🗓 October 17–21, 2026
📍 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Theme- Diving Deeper into Disease Biology: Emerging Models in Human Health
#AQMHD #ModelOrganism #MBL #DiseaseBiology
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
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?
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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
It’s that time of year, folks! Stickleback News from StickleStock Spring ‘25 is here!
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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.
www.sticklestock.com/protocols-1/...
www.sticklestock.com/protocols-1/...
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
We have a new video to share! How to prepare stickleback muscle tissue for stable isotopes analysis from the Bolnick lab space at UConn.
www.sticklestock.com/protocols-1/...
www.sticklestock.com/protocols-1/...
The time has come! Let’s register for Stickleback ‘25! event.fourwaves.com/stickleback-...
email [email protected] with any questions!
email [email protected] with any questions!
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
The time has come! Let’s register for Stickleback ‘25! event.fourwaves.com/stickleback-...
email [email protected] with any questions!
email [email protected] with any questions!
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
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...
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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!
December 5, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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!
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
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!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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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! 🧪🔬🧫
alaskastickleback.com
alaskastickleback.com
Alaska Stickleback Restoration Project
alaskastickleback.com
September 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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! 🧪🔬🧫
alaskastickleback.com
alaskastickleback.com
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
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/
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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
www.stickleback-2025.ca
August 25, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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
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 ’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
sway.cloud.microsoft
September 3, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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!
sway.cloud.microsoft/Tmavci0Dtfry...
Stickleback News via StickleStock Fall ’24 is out! Share out newsletter with your research team, fellow Stickleback enthusiasts, and your grandma!
sway.cloud.microsoft/Tmavci0Dtfry...
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
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.
www.sticklestock.com/about-stickl...
www.sticklestock.com/about-stickl...
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n52...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n52...
August 29, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n52...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n52...
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...
essopenarchive.org
August 28, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Great new article on FADS2 copy numbers in Southern Greenland threespine stickleback!
essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
Found a study on stickleback from near Hamburg on understanding evolutionary responses to hypoxia!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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
Found a study on stickleback from near Hamburg on understanding evolutionary responses to hypoxia!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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
Congrats on improving the ninespine stickleback reference genome! From earlier last month, 98.3% BUSCO completeness.
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