Fast Evolution from Precast Bricks: Genomics of Young Freshwater Populations of Threespine Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus

NV Terekhanova, MD Logacheva, AA Penin… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Adaptation is driven by natural selection; however, many adaptations are caused by weak
selection acting over large timescales, complicating its study. Therefore, it is rarely possible …

Fluctuating asymmetry as an indicator of stress and fitness in stickleback: a review of the literature and examination of cranial structures

DL Lajus, PV Golovin, AO Yurtseva… - Evolutionary …, 2019 - evolutionary-ecology.com
ABSTRACT Hypothesis: Fluctuating asymmetry (FA)–random deviations from perfect
symmetry that are used as a measure of developmental stability–is an effective indicator of …

Coccolithophore growth and calcification in an acidified ocean: Insights from community Earth system model simulations

KM Krumhardt, NS Lovenduski… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are inundating the upper ocean, acidifying the water, and
altering the habitat for marine phytoplankton. These changes are thought to be particularly …

Iterative development and the scope for plasticity: contrasts among trait categories in an adaptive radiation

SA Foster, MA Wund, MA Graham, RL Earley… - Heredity, 2015 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity can influence evolutionary change in a lineage, ranging from
facilitation of population persistence in a novel environment to directing the patterns of …

Fluctuating asymmetry in Pelophylax ridibundus meristic morphological traits and their importance in assessing environmental health

ZM Zhelev, SV Tsonev, MV Angelov - Ecological Indicators, 2019 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of fluctuating asymmetry in Pelophylax
ridibundus populations inhabiting the River of Sazliyka (southern Bulgaria), polluted with …

Fluctuating asymmetry as a pollution monitor: The Australian estuarine smooth toadfish Tetractenos glaber (Teleostei: Tetraodontidae)

D Lajus, A Yurtseva, G Birch, DJ Booth - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2015 - Elsevier
The relationship between pollution level in estuarine sediment and fluctuating asymmetry
(FA) of resident smooth toadfish Tetractenos glaber was evaluated. A total of 188 fish from …

Drift versus selection as drivers of phenotypic divergence at small spatial scales: The case of Belgjarskógur threespine stickleback

M Seymour, K Räsänen… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Divergence in phenotypic traits is facilitated by a combination of natural selection,
phenotypic plasticity, gene flow, and genetic drift, whereby the role of drift is expected to be …

Adaptability of Bony Armor Elements of the Threespine Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus (Teleostei: Gasterosteidae): Ecological and Evolutionary Insights from …

M Schröder, S Windhager, K Schaefer, H Ahnelt - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
Differentiation in the defensive armor of the threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus,
is caused by predator-driven divergent selection. Most studies considered armor traits …

Assessments of bilateral asymmetry with application in human skull analysis

M Hou, MJ Fagan - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
As a common feature, bilateral symmetry of biological forms is ubiquitous, but in fact rarely
exact. In a setting of analytic geometry, bilateral symmetry is defined with respect to a point …

Spatial phenotypic and genetic structure of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in a heterogeneous natural system, Lake Mývatn, Iceland

A Millet, BK Kristjánsson, Á Einarsson… - Ecology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Eco‐evolutionary responses of natural populations to spatial environmental variation
strongly depend on the relative strength of environmental differences/natural selection and …