Adaptive radiation of gobies in the interstitial habitats of gravel beaches accompanied by body elongation and excessive vertebral segmentation

BACKGROUND: The seacoasts of the Japanese Arc are fringed by many gravel beaches owing to active tectonic uplift and intense denudation caused by heavy rainfall. These gravel beaches are inhabited by gobies of the genus Luciogobius that burrow into the gravel sediment and live interstitially. Althou...

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Autores principales: Yamada, Tomohiko, Sugiyama, Tomoshige, Tamaki, Nana, Kawakita, Atsushi, Kato, Makoto
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19558710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-145

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19558710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-145

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