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Divergent evolution of head morphology between marine and freshwater sticklebacks
Antoine Fraimout, Ying Chen, Kerry Reid, Juha Merilä
The paper shows genetically based adaptive differentiation in head size and shape between freshwater and marine sticklebacks, driven by limnetic feeding selection, but gill-raker traits show less conclusive genetic divergence.
DOI 10.1101/2023.07.14.549115