Sex is determined by chromosomes in mammals and by temperature in many reptiles. But for sea lampreys — eel-like creatures that dine on blood — the growth rate of their larvae seems to control whether ...

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The lamprey immune system represents an atypical model of adaptive immunity that diverges fundamentally from the well‐characterised immunoglobulin‐based system of jawed vertebrates. Instead, lampreys ...

The number of invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes has gone down after regular control and treatment efforts resumed.

Many of the genes involved in the natural repair of the injured spinal cord of the lamprey are also active in the repair of the peripheral nervous system in mammals, according to a study by a ...

WOODLAND — Biologist Dave’y Lumley paced the shallow water at the mouth of the Lewis River on an overcast morning late last month. With each step, she carefully scanned the water in front of her, ...

The U.S. and Canada collectively spend tens of millions of dollars per year to fight invasive, sport fish-attacking sea lamprey in the Great Lakes, a control effort that's spanned generations. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Lakes Fishery Commission has recorded a spike of sea lampreys related to travel restrictions that occurred during the ...

Ian McCluskey / OPB When Aaron Jackson was growing up in eastern Oregon, he’d never seen a lamprey in the Umatilla River. Tribal elders remembered harvesting the fish there for ceremonies. But by the ...

Sexual selection may play a role in the evolution of lamprey pheromones. In "Intra- and Interspecific Variation in Production of Bile Acids that Act As Sex Pheromones in Lampreys," published in ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 101, No. 27 (Jul. 6, 2004), pp. 10127-10131 (5 pages) The lectin complement pathway in innate immunity is closely ...