Projet
Discovering and Protecting Unique Freshwater Diversity in Eastern Canada, With Special Focus on Threespine Stickleback Fish in Quebec ParksOur project will include wide-scale sampling of stickleback populations from eastern Canada to understand their evolutionary history, to establish environmental predictors of traits associated with feeding and predator defense, and to determine the genetic mechanisms underlying defensive traits. These genetic mechanisms seem to differ from the rest of the world, contributing to the unique nature of this species and its dynamics. We will especially focus on populations in a cluster of lakes in Québec's Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata.
