Texas A&M AgriLife Research studies show shiner and minnow populations could provide early signs of water depletion, drought, and other environmental changes.
Texas A&M-Galveston professor Jay Rooker will lead a $1.9 million effort to learn more about the Flower Garden Banks and the fish that inhabit the marine sanctuary.
Thanks to its translucent body close in appearance to a related species, the Danionella cerebrum had been able to hide in plain sight. A Texas A&M researcher is among the team of international scientists who named and classified the fish.
An Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa, an asexual fish species native to Texas that is entirely female. (Dr. Manfred Schartl) By Shana Hutchins, Texas A&M University College of Science Highlights The Amazon molly has flourished by defying nature’s odds to reproduce asexually, cloning themselves by duping the male fish of another species to…