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Stickleback is the catch of the day

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Whole-genome sequences from a marine fish that has adjusted to life in fresh water give hints about general genetic mechanisms that drive the evolution of adaptations to new environmental niches. See Article p.55

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Figure 1: Adapting to new surroundings.

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  1. Hopi E. Hoekstra is in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.,

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