threespine stickleback
Divergence of male courtship displays between sympatric forms of anadromous threespine stickleback
... of stickleback (Tinbergen, 1953; Symons, ...male threespine stickleback is an important ornament for attracting females (Rowland, 1994; Rowe et ...
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Mechanisms underlying parallel reductions in aerobic capacity in non migratory threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) populations
... of stickleback pectoral muscle, we measured two traits that are correlated with mitochondrial content: (1) fibre-type composition (Zierath and Hawley, 2004), and (2) the activities of two mitochondrial enzymes, CS ...
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Correlates of prolonged swimming performance in F2 hybrids of migratory and non migratory threespine stickleback
... (stream-resident) threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus 1758) populations to identify the morphological and physiological traits that are correlated with the capacity for prolonged ...
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Oxidative stress is transient and tissue specific during cold acclimation of threespine stickleback
... of threespine stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ), and, if so, when it occurs and whether it varies among ...acclimated stickleback compared with warm-acclimated fish, and remained constant in ...
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Can the behaviour of threespine stickleback parasitized with Schistocephalus solidus be replicated by manipulating host physiology?
... its threespine stickleback host (Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus ...a stickleback harbouring an infective worm is ingested by a suitable definitive host, typically a fish-eating bird or other ...
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Distinctive insular forms of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from western Mediterranean islands
... 2015 Distinctive insular forms of threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus from western Mediterranean islands.. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and P[r] ...
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Lateral line diversity among ecologically divergent threespine stickleback populations
... The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) provides a unique opportunity to study variability in the lateral line system within one species that utilizes different marine and freshwater ...16 ...
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Genome Characterization, Prevalence, and Transmission Mode of a Novel Picornavirus Associated with the Threespine Stickleback Fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
... The threespine stickleback species complex is an important model system in ecological and evolutionary studies because of the large number of iso- lated divergent populations that are experimentally ...
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An eDNA qPCR assay to detect the presence of the parasite Schistocephalus solidus inside its threespine stickleback host
... – threespine stickleback pair has been studied extensively to investigate host phenotypic alterations associated with a parasite with a complex life ...the stickleback ’ s abdominal cavity and can be ...
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Divergent Macroparasite Infections in Parapatric Swiss Lake-Stream Pairs of Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
... in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) of four Swiss lake systems each harbouring parapatric lake- stream ecotype ...of stickleback, whereas no such correlation was found among allopatric ...
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Sexual dimorphism in the feeding mechanism of threespine stickleback
... Sexual dimorphism is common in nature and has the potential to increase intraspecific variation in performance and patterns of resource use. We sought to determine whether anadromous threespine stickleback, ...
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Pronounced heritable variation and limited phenotypic plasticity in visual pigments and opsin expression of threespine stickleback photoreceptors
... Vertebrate colour vision is mediated by the differential expression of visual pigment proteins (opsins) in retinal cone photoreceptors. Many species alter opsin expression during life, either as part of development or as ...
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Extent of QTL Reuse During Repeated Phenotypic Divergence of Sympatric Threespine Stickleback
... freshwater threespine stickleback populations after coloni- zation by the same marine ancestral form involved natural selection on shared standing genetic variation (Colosimo et ...other stickleback ...
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Dynamics of pectoral fin rowing in a fish with an extreme rowing stroke: the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
... The threespine stickleback swims at sub-burst speeds by generating thrust from paired pectoral fins that present a stereotypical rowing ...the stickleback fin, with its multiple, independently ...
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Reverse evolution of armor plates in the threespine stickleback.
... the last 50 years [S1, S21], the rapid increase in armor plates in Lake Washington stickleback. cannot be attributed to changes in salinity [S22, S23][r] ...
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The genetic architecture of divergence between threespine stickleback species.
... Threespine sticklebacks provide one of the best-known examples of rapid adaptive radiation in vertebrates. A large number of distinct morphological forms of sticklebacks have evolved following the colonization of ...
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Signals of predation-induced directional and disruptive selection in the threespine stickleback
... We observed different growth rates for stickleback from the two habitats, which differ in predation pressure. Juvenile individuals from both sites were similar in size but, with increasing age, size increased more ...
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Evolution of Schooling Behavior in Threespine Sticklebacks Is Shaped by the Eda Gene
... ABSTRACT Despite longstanding interest in the genetic mechanisms that underlie behavioral evolution, very few genes that underlie naturally occurring variation in behavior between individuals or species are known, ...
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Role of the iridescent eye in stickleback female mate choice
... Colour is a widespread signal used by males of many species for various types of communication including sexual display and territoriality (Endler et al., 2005; Doucet and Meadows, 2009). Such colour, which is commonly ...
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Genetic Dissection of a Supergene Implicates Tfap2a in Craniofacial Evolution of Threespine Sticklebacks
... of threespine stickleback fish ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) have convergently evolved two constructive craniofacial traits, longer branchial bones and increased pharyngeal tooth number, likely as adaptations ...
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