Gasterosteus aculeatus

Bell, A.M. (2001). Effects of an endocrine disrupter on courtship and aggressive behaviour of male three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Animal Behaviour 62, 775-780. 

Katsiadaki, I., Morris, S., and Squires, C. et al. (2006). Use of the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) as a sensitive in vivo test for detection of environmental antiandrogens. Environmental Health Perspectives 114, 115-121. 

Pascoe, D. and D.L. Mattey. 1977. Studies on the toxicity of cadmium to the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus L. Jour. Fish Biol. 11 207-215. 

Three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, Gulf of Gdansk, whole, 1988-89 Lahontan Reservoir, Nevada, 1981 0.01-0.11 FW, Max. 0.49 FW 62... 

Falandysz, J. and M. Kowalewska. 1993. Mercury concentration of stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus from the Gulf of Gdansk. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 51 710-715. 

Threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus 3 Lethal in 10-30 days 2... 

Three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus 0.1 or 1.0 After exposure in seawater for 7.5 months, hepatocytes were abnormal in the high dose group reproduction normal in both groups 45... 

Nickel-zinc mixtures were additive in toxicity to marine copepods (Verriopoulos and Dimas 1988) and to the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus Skidmore 1964). 

Matthiessen, P. and A.E. Brafield. 1977. Uptake and loss of dissolved zinc by the stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L. Jour. Fish Biol. 10 399-410. 

Gasterosteus aculeatus [51] LAS in the clam C. fluminea, the amphipod Hyalella azteca, snails Elimia sp., and fish L. macrochirus, P. promelas, Ictalurus punctatus [68] and HPB in the clam C. fluminea, the fish P. promelas, and the tadpole Rana catesbeiana [17]. 

Schistocephalus solidus has its plerocercoid stage in an ectotherm (the fish Gasterosteus aculeatus) and its adult stage in an endoderm (a fish-eating bird) and it serves as an excellent model for the study of temperature adaptation in parasites. Walker Barrett (922,923) have studied the effect of temperature on (a) the activities of the mitochondrial enzyme adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) and (b) the physical state of mitochondrial membranes in adult and larval S. solidus. 

Fig. 8.15. Monthly variation in the ovarian content of the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, parasitised with the progenetic plerocercoids of Schistocephalus solidus. (After Meakins, 1974.)...

The plerocercoids of this species, which ranged from 2 to 200 mg in the body cavity of the stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus, have been grown to the infective stage in a relatively simple medium (467). In a liquid phase of 25% (v/v) horse serum, 0.5% (w/v) yeast extract, 0.65% (w/v) glucose in Hanks saline (pH 7.1) and a gas phase of 5% C02 in air, dry weight increases of up to 500% were recorded in 8 days. These worms matured to adults when cultured in vitro at 40 °C. 

Giles, N. (1983). Behavioural effects of the parasite Schistocephalus solidus (Cestoda) on an intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L. Animal Behaviour, 31 1192-4. 

McPhail, J. D. Peacock, S. D. (1983). Some effects of the cestode Schistocephalus solidus) on reproduction in the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 61 901-8. 

Meakins, R. H. (1974). A quantitative approach to the effects of the plerocercoid of Schistocephalus solidus Muller 1776 on the ovarian maturation of the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 44 73-9. 

Table 3.2. Mean ( Standard Deviation) Body Mass, Organ Sizes and Pectoral Muscle LDH Activity (U g 1 tissue) in Anadromous and Stream Resident Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)...

Minnow (Pimephales promelas). The three-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is included because an embryo test has been recently developed (Eriksson 2007) and because this species is receiving increasing attention as a test species representative for European coastal and inland waters. 

Eriksson K. (2007) Method development Embryo testing with the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Diploma work at the Department of Applied Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. 

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