Pollution-proof fish borrow genes from relatives to survive toxins

One fish is thriving in polluted areas after mating with another species, suggesting threatened species could be saved by deliberate hybridisation

Toxic triumph: fish species in polluted waters steals genes from another

Research reveals rapid hybridisation and a population rebound. Stephen Fleischfresser reports.

How to survive in a human-dominated world

How genetics, resources and a long-distant relative helped killfish adapt to extreme pollution

The combination of a big population, good genes and luck helps explain how a species of fish in Texas' Houston Ship Channel was able to adapt to what normally would be lethal levels of toxins ...

Killifish Survive Polluted Waters Thanks to Genes from Another Fish

Gulf killifish have made a stunning comeback in Houston with the help of genetic mutations imported from interspecies mating with Atlantic killifish.

A study reveals one species of has adapted to live in lethal levels of toxins

In a new report, researchers chronicle how the Gulf killifish developed an unlikely resistance to massive levels of pollution found in the natural habitat, the Houston Ship Channel.

This Fish Has Evolved to Thrive in Intensely Polluted Water

A small fish somehow evolved resistance to the heavily polluted water of the Houston Ship Channel by mysteriously acquiring genes from another fish from thousands of miles away, according to ...