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SUBMITTER: Kimmel CB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3394458 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kimmel Charles B CB Hohenlohe Paul A PA Ullmann Bonnie B Currey Mark M Cresko William A WA
Evolution & development 20120701 4
Oceanic threespine sticklebacks have repeatedly and independently evolved new morphologies upon invasions of freshwater habitats. A consistent derived feature of the freshwater form across populations and geography is a shape change of the opercle, a large early developing facial bone. We show that the principal multivariate axis describing opercle shape development from the young larva to the full adult stage of oceanic fish matches the principal axis of evolutionary change associated with relo ...[more]