How do salmon change from freshwater to saltwater fish?

5 mayo 2015

For decades, researchers have tried to find out what regulates changes in salmon when they transform from being freshwater to saltwater fish. Now they have come a little closer to an answer. A new study shows that light — increases in day length in the spring — affects developmental processes in the fish’s brain during smoltification.
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