Genetic Adaptations to Climate Variation in Fish
Steve Arnott, Marine Resources Research Institute, SC Dept. of Natural Resources
28 Aug 2009
Dr. Steve Arnott, a recent addition to the Marine Resources Research Institute's Mariculture and Estuarine Finfish research group, will examines how certain finfish species adapt to climate variation. Dr. Arnott has worked on fish species from a wide range of latitudes and will describe how these species might be expected to respond as environmental conditions change in the future, concentrating on genetic adaptations in growth rate. Dr. Arnott will describe a series of experiments covering a global array of finfish populations from such diverse locations as Nova Scotia, Spain, Scotland, Iceland, British Columbia, Japan and South Carolina, designed to reveal the range of adaptations that occur, what evolutionary mechanisms might drive them, and what underlying genetic causes might be responsible.