Version français en bas de page In May 2023, Justine Belik (young teaching assistant), Ivan Blanco (FRIA doctoral researcher) and myself (Frédéric Silvestre – professor) travelled to Belize, a small Central American country, to work on our favorite model fish: the mangrove rivulus. This killifish averages 3cm in adult size and is found exclusively in…
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Documentary about the mangrove rivulus
LEAP has published on its youtube channel a documentary of 29 minutes about the mangrove rivulus and the field work in Belize and Florida in 2019. It was a part of the PhD thesis of Valentine Chapelle during which we explored the mangroves in these two regions of the world. Please watch the video and…
The mission to Belize is a success !
In May 2019, Frédéric Silvestre and Valentine Chapelle organized a field trip to Belize to work on mangrove rivulus. This mission was dedicated to investigate two populations of mangrove rivulus: on Twin Caye and on Long Caye. The one from Twin Caye (in South Water Marine Reserve) is exceptional. It shows the higher rate of…