matthias schneider and michael janke HYDRA Institute for Marine Sciences, Elba Field Station, Loc. Fetovaia, Via del Forno 80, I-57034 Campo nell’Elba (LI), Italy, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Ichthyology section, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Marine S...

Maren Ziegler, Cornelia M. Roder, Claudia Büchel and Christian R. Voolstra* 1 Reef Genomics Lab, Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Biosciences, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 3 Ichthyology Section, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum,...

This issue of Fish and Fisheries, devoted to the‘Species Concept in Fish’, could bene¢t, one might think, from a brief review of what Charles Darwin (1809^1882), the founder of evolutionary biology, might have to sayabout ¢shes and the species concept. Darwin, as every biologist knows,wrote numerous books on particular groups of organisms: barnacles, orchids, earthworms, but neveron ¢shes.To co...

Higher Fluctuating Asymmetry: Indication of Stress on Anadara trapezia Associated with Contaminated Seagrass Rohani Ambo-Rappe a b , Dmitry L. Lajus c & Maria J. Schreider a a School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Newcastle University, Ourimbah, Australia b Department of Marine Sciences, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia c Department of Ichthyology and Hydrobiology, St. Petersburg...

Otoliths are one of the most useful and important biological structures for various studies fish, leading to many practical applications that not limited only ichthyology [...]

MICHAEL P. HAMMER, MARK ADAMS & RALPH FOSTER 1 Natural Sciences, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, PO Box 4646 Darwin NT 0810, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Evolutionary Biology Unit, South Australian Museum, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Ichthyology Section, South Australian Museum, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia. E-mail: ralph.fo...