Why work with stickleback?
The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is an excellent research model organism that has been studied for well over 100 years. The stickleback is a versatile and well documented organism for research. Stickleback provide substantial genetic, phenotypic, and ecological variation between many diverse natural populations. Large clutch sizes are ideal for replication and statistically robust studies.
Populations in the Stock Center and Projected Availability
Our Stock Center Alaska and British Columbia populations!
Stickleback research sites from around the world
Hover over a site to see who to contact if you want to learn more about the location!
If there are papers associated with the location, there will be a link below the Primary Investigator’s name.
Ancient Genes, Modern Species: a peak into Dr. Dolph Schluter’s work and how Stickleback came to be where they are today
Important resources
From the Alaska Project—populations highlighted above in the map:Dimensionality and Modularity of Adaptive Variation: Divergence in Threespine Stickleback from Diverse Environments
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We have a large stock of stickleback of all life stages, as well as many microbes, parasites, and gene editing options.