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Conspicuous carotenoid-based pelvic spine ornament in three-spined stickleback populations—occurrence and inheritance

Reports on reddish carotenoid-based ornaments in female three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) are few, despite the large interest in the species’ behaviour, ornamentation, morphology and evolution. We sampled sticklebacks from 17 sites in north-western Europe in this first extensive stu...

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Autores principales: Amundsen, CR, Nordeide, JT, Gjøen, HM, Larsen, B, Egeland, ES
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4389276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25861558
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.872