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Natural selection and the genetics of adaptation in threespine stickleback.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 27 Aug 2010
Schluter Dolph, Marchinko Kerry B, Barrett R D H, Rogers Sean M
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Growing knowledge of the molecular basis of adaptation in wild populations is expanding the study of natural selection. We summarize ongoing efforts to infer three aspects of natural selection--mechanism, form and history--from the genetics of adaptive evolution in threespine stickleback that colonized freshwater after the last ice age. We tested a mechanism of selection for reduced bony armour in freshwater by...
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