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Dissection and Flat-mounting of the Threespine Stickleback Branchial Skeleton.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE - 7 May 2016
Ellis Nicholas A, Miller Craig T
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The posterior pharyngeal segments of the vertebrate head give rise to the branchial skeleton, the primary site of food processing in fish. The morphology of the fish branchial skeleton is matched to a species' diet. Threespine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus) have emerged as a model system to study the genetic and developmental basis of evolved differences in a variety of traits. Marine populations of...
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