ArticleEcology and evolution2026
Genetic Divergence in the Absence of Strong Ecological Differences Between Coexisting White and Common Atlantic Marine Stickleback.
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- The gonad as a mediator of life history tradeoffs: Antagonistic hormonal pleiotropy facilitates evolutionary divergence in reproductive strategies.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Genomic Patterns of Parallel Divergence Across Demographically Heterogeneous Stickleback Populations in Eastern Canada.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
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Abstract
Identifying taxa in the earliest phases of speciation is critical for understanding how reproductive isolation arises. In Nova Scotia, Canada, "white" threespine stickleback co-occur with common marine stickleback but differ in size, nuptial coloration, nesting behavior, and parental care, raising the possibility that they represent a distinct ecotype with some degree of reproductive isolation. We combined population genomics, morphometrics, and stable isotope analysis to test whether white stickleback represent a distinct lineage and whether they have diverged along ecological axes as have freshwater stickleback populations. Genotyping-by-sequencing revealed that male and female white stickleback form a genetic cluster distinct from sympatric common stickleback with evidence of ongoing gene flow yet with very low overall genomic divergence (F
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