Multiple waves of freshwater colonization of the three-spined stickleback in the Japanese Archipelago.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a remarkable system to study the genetic mechanisms underlying parallel evolution during the transition from marine to freshwater habitats. Although the majority of previous studies on the parallel evolution of sticklebacks have mainly focused on postglacial freshwater populations in the Pacific Northwest of North America and northern Europe, we recently use Japanese stickleback populations for investigating shared and unique features of adaptation and speciation between geographically distant populations. However, we currently lack a comprehensive phylogeny of the Japanese three-spined sticklebacks, despite the fact that a good phylogeny is essential for any evolutionary and ecological studies. Here, we conducted

SUBMITTER: Kakioka R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7641863 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature