Repeated adaptation of the freshwater goby Rhinogobius kurodai from lotic to lentic environments in the Kanto Plain, Japan: morphological, behavioural, and genetic approaches.

Abstract excerpt

Habitat generalists, which occupy a variety of environments, provide valuable systems for investigating how microgeographic adaptation drives population differentiation and range expansion, ultimately promoting speciation. This study focused on Rhinogobius kurodai, a freshwater goby widely distributed across the diverse aquatic landscapes of the Kanto Plain, the largest plain in Japan, which includes both lotic...

Topics

• Animals
• Japan
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Ecosystem
• Perciformes
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide