Dr. Kristina Noreikiene, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Dr. Kristina Noreikiene, senior researcher at the Department of Botany and Genetics, Institute for Biosciences at the University of Vilnius, will present: "Thriving in multi-stress environments: lessons from a humic lake perch"
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Humic water environments are common in the boreal region. Typically, such habitats are characterized by acidic water pH, strong light and oxygen stratification creating a multi-stress environment which is too challenging to many aquatic organisms. In the most extreme cases, such habitats are able to support only one teleost species - the Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis). What can we learn from perch? Our research encompasses analyses of habitat-dependent differences in various phenotypes, host-parasite interactions and the search for genomic underpinnings of adaptation to multi-stress environments.
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