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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
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Female sticklebacks transfer information via eggs: effects of maternal experience with predators on offspring
There is growing evidence that maternal experience influences offspring via non-genetic mechanisms. When female three-spined… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Along the speciation continuum in sticklebacks.
Speciation can be viewed as a continuum, potentially divisible into several states: (1) continuous variation within panmictic… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning
Explaining the ecological causes of evolutionary diversification is a major focus of biology, but surprisingly little has been… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Speciation in reverse: morphological and genetic evidence of the collapse of a three‐spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) species pair
Historically, six small lakes in southwestern British Columbia each contained a sympatric species pair of three‐spined… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
CAN INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION DRIVE DISRUPTIVE SELECTION? AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF STICKLEBACKS
  • D. Bolnick
  • Evolution; international journal of organic…
  • 2004
  • Corpus ID: 16739680
Abstract Theory suggests that frequency-dependent resource competition will disproportionately impact the most common phenotypes… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Nine-spined sticklebacks exploit the most reliable source when public and private information conflict
Social foragers can potentially use private information gained from personal experience and public information gained from… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION IN STICKLEBACKS: ENVIRONMENT‐DEPENDENT HYBRID FITNESS
“Ecological” speciation occurs when reproductive isolation evolves as a consequence of divergent selection between populations… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
TIT FOR TAT in sticklebacks and the evolution of cooperation
The problems of achieving mutual cooperation can be formalized in a game called the Prisoner's Dilemma in which selfish defection… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
A Functional Biology of Sticklebacks
  • R. Wootton
  • Functional Biology Series
  • 1984
  • Corpus ID: 39648576
1 Introduction.- 2 Spatial Distribution.- 3 Structure and Function.- 4 Feeding.- 5 Environmental Factors, Metabolism and… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Influence of a predator on the optimal foraging behaviour of sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.)
ACCORDING to the principle of natural selection, each individual animal is assumed to maximise its inclusive fitness1. Thus… 
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