• Association between Chromosome 4 and mercury accumulation in muscle of the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) 

      Calboli, Federico C. F.; Delahaut, Vyshal; Deflem, Io S.; Hablützel, Pascal I.; Hellemans, Bart; Kordas, Anna; Raeymaekers, Joost A. M.; Bervoets, Lieven; De Boeck, Gudrun; Volckaert, Filip A. M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Anthropogenic stressors, such as pollutants, act as selective factors that can leave measurable changes in allele frequencies in the genome. Metals are of particular concern among pollutants, because of interference with ...
    • Environmental and spatial determinants of parasite communities in invasive and native freshwater fishes 

      Deflem, Io S.; Van Den Eeckhaut, Frederik; Vandevoorde, Mikaël; Calboli, Federico C. F.; Raeymaekers, Joost A. M.; Volckaert, Filip A. M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Understanding why certain host species harbor more parasites is an important question in parasite and fish ecology. Parasite infection among sympatric species may integrate various processes affecting parasite assembly, ...
    • Predicting fish community responses to environmental policy targets 

      Deflem, Io S.; Bennetsen, Elina; Opedal, Øystein H.; Calboli, Federico C. F.; Ovaskainen, Otso; Van Thuyne, Gerlinde; Volckaert, Filip A. M.; Raeymaekers, Joost A. M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The European Union adopted the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000 to tackle the rapid degradation of freshwater systems. However, biological, hydromorphological, and physico-chemical water quality targets are ...