Mechanisms of divergence in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
One of the most impressive examples of parallel divergence in nature is the repeated loss of armour in freshwater threespine stickleback, yet we have little evidence for the mechanisms driving this evolutionary change. I tested two ecological factors hypothesized to drive armour divergence between...
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University of British Columbia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12269 |