ArticleEcology and evolution2013
Ecological causes of morphological evolution in the three-spined stickleback.
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- Nest architecture and male aggression drive sexual isolation between three-spined stickleback ecotypes.Zoological letters · 2026Article
- Same trait, different genes: pelvic spine loss in three brook stickleback populations in Alberta, Canada.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Lunar-linked biological rhythms in the immune system of freshwater three-spined stickleback.Discovery immunology · 2024Article
- Pelvic spine reduction affects diet but not gill raker morphology in two polymorphic brook stickleback (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Plate reduction in southern Japanese freshwater populations of threespine stickleback (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- The maintenance of standing genetic variation: Gene flow vs. selective neutrality in Atlantic stickleback fish.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- (Non)Parallel developmental mechanisms in vertebrate appendage reduction and loss.Ecology and evolution · 2021Review
- Predator biomass and vegetation influence the coastal distribution of threespine stickleback morphotypes.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations.Nature ecology & evolution · 2021Article
- Phosphorus limitation does not drive loss of bony lateral plates in freshwater stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2020Article
- Genetic divergence outpaces phenotypic evolution among threespine stickleback populations in old freshwater habitats.Biological journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London · 2019Article
- Predictable genome-wide sorting of standing genetic variation during parallel adaptation to basic versus acidic environments in stickleback fish.Evolution letters · 2019Article
- Ongoing niche differentiation under high gene flow in a polymorphic brackish water threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) population.BMC evolutionary biology · 2018Article
- Low temperature and low salinity drive putatively adaptive growth differences in populations of threespine stickleback.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Individuals that are consistent in risk-taking benefit during collective foraging.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- The ecology of an adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback from North Uist, Scotland.Molecular ecology · 2016Article
- Lateral plate number in low-plated threespine stickleback: a study of plasticity and heritability.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- Genomic signatures of the plateless phenotype in the threespine stickleback.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- Parallelism and Epistasis in Skeletal Evolution Identified through Use of Phylogenomic Mapping Strategies.Molecular biology and evolution · 2016Article
- Cognitive ability is heritable and predicts the success of an alternative mating tactic.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
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Abstract
The central assumption of evolutionary theory is that natural selection drives the adaptation of populations to local environmental conditions, resulting in the evolution of adaptive phenotypes. The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) displays remarkable phenotypic variation, offering an unusually tractable model for understanding the ecological mechanisms underpinning adaptive evolutionary change. Using populations on North Uist, Scotland we investigated the role of predation pressure and calcium limitation on the adaptive evolution of stickleback morphology and behavior. Dissolved calcium was a significant predictor of plate and spine morph, while predator abundance was not. Stickleback latency to emerge from a refuge varied with morph, with populations with highly reduced plates and spines and high predation risk less bold. Our findings support strong directional selection in three-spined stickleback evolution, driven by multiple selective agents.
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