Parallel developmental genetic features underlie stickleback gill raker evolution

Andrew M. Glazer, Phillip A. Cleves, Priscilla A. Erickson, Angela Y. Lam, Craig T. Miller

EvoDevo · 2014 · 44 citations · 121 references

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Abstract

Collectively, these data demonstrate that parallel developmental genetic features underlie the convergent evolution of gill raker reduction in freshwater sticklebacks, suggesting that even highly polygenic adaptive traits can have a predictable developmental genetic basis.

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