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Sticklebacks

Known as: Gasterosteidae, Stickleback 
Common name for fish found mostly in the family Gasterosteidae. The three-spine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is frequently studied.
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Marine stickleback fish have colonized and adapted to thousands of streams and lakes formed since the last ice age, providing an… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Adaptive Girdle Loss in Sticklebacks How do molecular changes give rise to phenotypic adaptation exemplified by the repeated… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Next-generation sequencing technology provides novel opportunities for gathering genome-scale sequence data in natural… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
A perplexing new question that has emerged from the recent surge of interest in behavioural syndromes or animal personalities is… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Major phenotypic changes evolve in parallel in nature by molecular mechanisms that are largely unknown. Here, we use positional… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Hindlimb loss has evolved repeatedly in many different animals by means of molecular mechanisms that are still unknown. To… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Natural selection plays a fundamental role in most theories of speciation, but empirical evidence from the wild has been lacking… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Introduction to the evolutionary biology of the threespine stickleback. 1: Systematics and morphology of the Gasterosteiformes. 2… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
We present evidence of ecological character displacement among species of threespined sticklebacks that inhabit small lakes of… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
AN important problem in evolutionary biology since the time of Darwin has been to understand why females preferentially mate with…