Still Waters Posted August 16, 2022 #1 Share Posted August 16, 2022 New research based on an expedition to the icy waters off Greenland reveals soaring levels of antifreeze proteins in a species of tiny snailfish, underlying the importance of this unique adaptation to life in sub-zero temperatures. The study, led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York (CUNY), and published today in the journal Evolutionary Bioinformatics, also warns that warming oceanic temperatures in the Arctic could pose a threat to these highly specialized fishes. Gruber and co-author John Sparks, a curator in the museum's Department of Ichthyology, decided to investigate the antifreeze proteins of the juvenile variegated snailfish, Liparis gibbus, after encountering a separate exceptional ability of the tiny fish—biofluorescence. https://phys.org/news/2022-08-fish-chock-full-antifreeze-protein-iceberg.html https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/11769343221118347 Related: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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