The threespine stickleback is a valuable organism for studying the molecular basis of adaptive evolution, as populations of these fish have adapted from marine to freshwater environments in many geographic locations. This publication of a reference genome and sequences of multiple marine and freshwater sticklebacks has enabled the genome-wide identification of regions of divergence between the populations; this will be a useful resource for studies of adaptation and ecological speciation. Insights that have already emerged include a substantial contribution of non-coding sequences to the divergent loci.
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Jones, F. C. et al. The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks. Nature 484, 55–61 (2012)
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Muers, M. Stickleback genomes illuminate adaptive evolution. Nat Rev Genet 13, 299 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3236
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3236