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The preferred temperatures of juvenile three-spined stickleback from bodies of freshwater of the White Sea coastal region are studied under experimental conditions. The final preferred temperature in the young-of-the-year is 15.2°C, regardless of the acclimation temperature (11, 16, and 20°C). The increased duration of experiments (10 days) made it possible to track the process of the temperature selection as a whole, rather than observing its particular phases. A comparison of the original results with the literature data reveal possible differences in the temperature characteristics, both in geographically remote populations of the three-spined stickleback and between its freshwater and marine forms.
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We are grateful to A.A. Bolotovskii for providing the live material for research.
This work was performed as part of State Task no. AAAA-A18-118012690102-9 with support from the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Theme no. 0122-2018-0001.
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Smirnov, A.K., Smirnova, E.S. Final Preferred Temperature of Juvenile Three-Spined Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus (Linnaeus, 1758). Inland Water Biol 12, 83–87 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S199508291901019X
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