Cool adaptations: How fish survive in the Antarctic Ocean

With water temperatures as low as -1.9°C (28.6°F), the Southern Ocean is a place of extreme living conditions. A new study led by Senckenberg researchers shows how fish have adapted to Antarctic temperatures. The researchers used the Antarctic spiny plunderfish (Harpagifer antarcticus) as a model organism and, for the first time, analyzed the maternal and paternal copies of its genome separately.…