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ERC grant for Kjetil Lysne Voje Sep. 3, 2020

Kjetil Lysne Voje has been awarded 1.5 million Euros in research grants from the European Research Council (ERC). He will take a closer look at how changes in the evolution of species occur over time.
New story out in PNAS: Evolution of male pregnancy associated with remodeling of canonical vertebrate immunity in seahorses and pipefishes Apr. 14, 2020

A recently published paper led by Olivia Roth (GEOMAR; Kiel) together with several members of CEES uncovers a modification of the adaptive immune repertoire of seahorses and pipefish that coincide with evolution of male pregnancy.

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Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi: Forskningen på klimaendringer og naturmangfold må kobles tettere sammen Dec. 1, 2020 9:36 AM
Oppdelingen av de to fagområdene i FNs klimapanel og FNs naturpanel gjør det vanskelig å forvalte jordas ressurser på en bærekraftig måte, mener Akademiet.
Fire mednat-menn om hvorfor gruppen dominerer på rektornivå Nov. 26, 2020 5:40 AM
Hvorfor har rektorvervet på UiO blitt en posisjon nesten utelukkende for menn fra medisin og matnat? Profilerte mednat-menn har flere forklaringer.

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New publication: Allometric relationships in morphological traits associated with foraging, swimming ability, and predator defense reveal adaptations toward brackish and freshwater environments in the threespine stickleback

Annette Taugbøl, Thomas P. Quinn, Kjartan Østbye, and Leif Asbjørn Vøllestad in Ecology and Evolution. Open Access.
New publication: Location Is Everything, but Climate Gets a Share: Analyzing Small-Scale Environmental Influences on Breeding Success in the White-Throated Dipper

By Anna L. K. Nilsson, Trond Reitan, Thomas Skaugen, Jan Henning L’Abée-Lund, Marlène Gamelon, Kurt Jerstad, Ole Wiggo Røstad, Tore Slagsvold, Nils C. Stenseth, L. Asbjørn Vøllestad and Bjørn Walseng in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
New publication: A selective NaV1.1 activator with potential for treatment of Dravet syndrome epilepsy

By Chun Yuen Chow, Yanni K. Y. Chian, Linlin Ma, Eivind A. B. Undheim, Volker Herzig, and Glenn F. King in Biochemical Pharmacology
New publication: Predation risk alters life history strategies in an oceanic copepod

By Kristina Øie Kvile, Dag Altin, Lotte Thommesen, and Josefin Titelman in Ecology

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Cod-Haddock 2-1 in Barents Sea Aug. 10, 2020

In the Boreal-Arctic seas, the two most abundant gadoid fish are the Atlantic cod ( Gadus morhua) and the haddock ( Melanogrammus aeglefinus). Both tend to respond to climate warming by an abundance increase and a change of distribution. Are these changes affecting how they are interacting? Statistical analysis using a state-space threshold model of acoustic and trawl survey data on cod and haddock abundance indicates that the interaction is changing with sea temperature: the cod negatively affecting the haddock when sea temperature is over 4 °C.
Global warming makes polar cod grow larger in the Arctic Barents Sea June 24, 2020

We studied the effect of changes in sea ice cover, sea temperature, and biomass of prey or predator on the length of polar cod. Our results show a significant negative effect of sea ice cover on length of all age groups of polar cod: Polar cod grow faster when there is less sea ice.