The Gut Could Reveal Effect of Climate Change on Fish
date:May 18, 2012
s, and many of the changes are difficult to predict.


Our work is largely about trying to identify the physiological bottlenecks, in other words which parts of the body will fail first whether the heart or the gut is the most sensitive part of the system.


Exploiting temperature differences


Turning food into nutrition requires the gastrointestinal system to function properly. Fish turn out to have guts that are highly sensitive to changes in water temperature, and many temperature-regulatin
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