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Partially repeatable genetic basis of benthic adaptation in threespine sticklebacks.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2016
Erickson Priscilla A, Glazer Andrew M, Killingbeck Emily E, Agoglia Rachel M, Baek Jiyeon, Carsanaro Sara M, Lee Anthony M, Cleves Phillip A, Schluter Dolph, Miller Craig T
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The extent to which convergent adaptation to similar ecological niches occurs by a predictable genetic basis remains a fundamental question in biology. Threespine stickleback fish have undergone an adaptive radiation in which ancestral oceanic populations repeatedly colonized and adapted to freshwater habitats. In multiple lakes in British Columbia, two different freshwater ecotypes have evolved: a deep-bodied...
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