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 | Shapiro, Michael D. | Turnover of sex chromosomes in the stickleback fishes (Gastrosteidae) | 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 been proposed for the rapid turnover of sex chromosomes, including the transposition of an existing sex-determination gen... | Sex determination; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Gasterosteus wheatlandi; Pungitius pungitius; Culaea inconstans; Apeltes quadracus; Gasterosteidae | 2009-02-20 |
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 | Shapiro, Michael D. | Adaptive evolution of pelvic reduction in sticklebacks by recurrent deletion of a Pitx1 enhancer | The molecular mechanisms underlying major phenotypic changes that have evolved repeatedly in nature are generally unknown. Pelvic loss in different natural populations of threespine stickleback fish has occurred by regulatory mutations deleting a tissue-specific enhancer of the Pituitary homeobox t... | Adaptive evolution; Pelvic reduction; Pituitary homeobox transcription factor 1; Pitx1; Gasterosteus aculeatus | 2010-01-14 |
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 | Shapiro, Michael D. | Genetic architecture of skeletal convergence and sex determination in ninespine sticklebacks | The history of life offers plentiful examples of convergent evolution, the independent derivation of similar phenotypes in distinct lineages [1]. Convergent phenotypes among closely related lineages (frequently termed "parallel" evolution) are often assumed to result from changes in similar genes or... | Convergent evolution; Skeletal convergence; Pungitius pungitius; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Comparative genetics | 2009-07 |