Hybridization and invasive species in a threatened freshwater fish community under environmental pressures: Morphometric and molecular evidence

L Galvez‐Bravo, A Perdices… - Aquatic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mediterranean freshwater systems are under threat owing to increased drought driven by
climate change, intensive human land uses and non‐native species. This is causing …

Lateral line system diversification during the early stages of ecological speciation in cichlid fish

DE Edgley, M Carruthers, NP Gabagambi… - BMC Ecology and …, 2024 - Springer
Background The mechanosensory lateral line system is an important sensory modality in
fishes, informing multiple behaviours related to survival including finding food and …

Bill shape reflects divergent prey consumption for island compared to mainland American kestrels (Falco sparverius)

LR Jones, CM Berns, MC Belk… - Biological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Feeding morphology permits animals to adapt to changing environments and is often under
strong selection. We evaluated if bill shape varies according to differences in dietary prey …

Predation affects body shape in the knife livebearer Alfaro cultratus (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)

DA Ardon, KB Golden, TJ Williams… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Livebearing fishes are a common model for studying the effects of predation on prey biology.
Numerous studies have found differences in life history, sexual selection, behavior, and …

Benchmarking Fish Dataset and Evaluation Metric in Keypoint Detection-Towards Precise Fish Morphological Assessment in Aquaculture Breeding

W Liu, J Tan, G Lan, A Li, D Li, L Zhao, X Yuan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Accurate phenotypic analysis in aquaculture breeding necessitates the quantification of
subtle morphological phenotypes. Existing datasets suffer from limitations such as small …

Assessing the application of landmark-free morphometrics to macroevolutionary analyses

JM Mulqueeney, THG Ezard, A Goswami - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The study of phenotypic evolution has been transformed by methods allowing three-
dimensional quantification of anatomical form. The present state-of-the-art 3D geometric …

Individual genotype but not phenotype predicts river migration success in Atlantic salmon

P Moccetti, JD Bolland, CE Adams, JR Rodger… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Migratory species typically undertake demanding long-distance journeys, across different
habitat types during which they are exposed to multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors …

Comparative Shape of Two Recently Diverged Species of Pacific Rockfish: Sebastes ciliatus and S. variabilis

J Smith, M Sorensen, DK Shiozawa, MC Belk - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Species delimitation can be based on the consideration of several different criteria, including
the differentiation of ecological or functional traits. Two species of Pacific rockfish, the dark …