A genome-wide linkage map for the threespine stickleback provides a first glimpse of the evolutionary genetic basis of morphological differentiation in a non-model vertebrate. Within extremely short evolutionary time spans, significant adaptive changes of known ecological consequence seem to have been brought about by a surprisingly small number of loci with major phenotypic effects.
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Meyer, A. The stuff new species are made of?. Nat Genet 30, 127–128 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0202-127
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