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
The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks
Marine stickleback fish have colonized and adapted to thousands of streams and lakes formed since the last ice age, providing an… (More)
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Adaptive evolution of pelvic reduction in sticklebacks by recurrent deletion of a Pitx1 enhancer.
The molecular mechanisms underlying major phenotypic changes that have evolved repeatedly in nature are generally unknown. Pelvic… (More)
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Population Genomics of Parallel Adaptation in Threespine Stickleback using Sequenced RAD Tags
Next-generation sequencing technology provides novel opportunities for gathering genome-scale sequence data in natural… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Exposure to predation generates personality in threespined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
A perplexing new question that has emerged from the recent surge of interest in behavioural syndromes or animal personalities is… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Widespread parallel evolution in sticklebacks by repeated fixation of Ectodysplasin alleles.
Major phenotypic changes evolve in parallel in nature by molecular mechanisms that are largely unknown. Here, we use positional… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Genetic and developmental basis of evolutionary pelvic reduction in threespine sticklebacks
Hindlimb loss has evolved repeatedly in many different animals by means of molecular mechanisms that are still unknown. To… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Divergent sexual selection enhances reproductive isolation in sticklebacks
Sexual selection may facilitate speciation because it can cause rapid evolutionary diversification of male mating signals and… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Natural selection and parallel speciation in sympatric sticklebacks.
Natural selection plays a fundamental role in most theories of speciation, but empirical evidence from the wild has been lacking… (More)
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Ecological character displacement and speciation in sticklebacks.
We present evidence of ecological character displacement among species of threespined sticklebacks that inhabit small lakes of… (More)
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Female sticklebacks use male coloration in mate choice and hence avoid parasitized males
AN important problem in evolutionary biology since the time of Darwin has been to understand why females preferentially mate with… (More)
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