Threespine stickleback: a model system for evolutionary genomics

K Reid, MA Bell, KR Veeramah - Annual Review of Genomics …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The repeated adaptation of oceanic threespine sticklebacks to fresh water has made it a
premier organism to study parallel evolution. These small fish have multiple distinct …

Sticklebacks as model hosts in ecological and evolutionary parasitology

I Barber - Trends in parasitology, 2013 - cell.com
The three-spined stickleback is a small teleost fish, native to coastal regions of the Northern
Hemisphere, which has emerged as a key model organism in evolutionary biology and …

Predicting future from past: The genomic basis of recurrent and rapid stickleback evolution

GA Roberts Kingman, DN Vyas, FC Jones… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Similar forms often evolve repeatedly in nature, raising long-standing questions about the
underlying mechanisms. Here, we use repeated evolution in stickleback to identify a large …

Along the speciation continuum in sticklebacks

AP Hendry, DI Bolnick, D Berner… - Journal of fish …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Speciation can be viewed as a continuum, potentially divisible into several states:(1)
continuous variation within panmictic populations,(2) partially discontinuous variation with …

Turnover of sex chromosomes in the stickleback fishes (Gasterosteidae)

JA Ross, JR Urton, J Boland, MD Shapiro… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Diverse sex-chromosome systems are found in vertebrates, particularly in teleost fishes,
where different systems can be found in closely related species. Several mechanisms have …

Evolutionary history of Otophysi (Teleostei), a major clade of the modern freshwater fishes: Pangaean origin and Mesozoic radiation

M Nakatani, M Miya, K Mabuchi, K Saitoh… - BMC evolutionary …, 2011 - Springer
Background Freshwater harbors approximately 12,000 fish species accounting for 43% of
the diversity of all modern fish. A single ancestral lineage evolved into about two-thirds of …

Construction of Ultradense Linkage Maps with Lep-MAP2: Stickleback F 2 Recombinant Crosses as an Example

P Rastas, FCF Calboli, B Guo… - Genome biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
High-density linkage maps are important tools for genome biology and evolutionary genetics
by quantifying the extent of recombination, linkage disequilibrium, and chromosomal …

A High-Quality Assembly of the Nine-Spined Stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) Genome

S Varadharajan, P Rastas, A Löytynoja… - Genome Biology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The Gasterosteidae fish family hosts several species that are important models for eco-
evolutionary, genetic, and genomic research. In particular, a wealth of genetic and genomic …

The evolution of sex determination associated with a chromosomal inversion

HM Natri, J Merilä, T Shikano - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Sex determination is a fundamentally important and highly diversified biological process, yet
the mechanisms behind the origin of this diversity are mostly unknown. Here we suggest that …

Chromosomal fusions facilitate adaptation to divergent environments in threespine stickleback

Z Liu, M Roesti, D Marques… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Chromosomal fusions are hypothesized to facilitate adaptation to divergent environments,
both by bringing together previously unlinked adaptive alleles and by creating regions of low …