Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Adaptive and non-adaptive divergence in a common landscape

  • Joost A. M. Raeymaekers,
  • Anurag Chaturvedi,
  • Pascal I. Hablützel,
  • Io Verdonck,
  • Bart Hellemans,
  • Gregory E. Maes,
  • Luc De Meester,
  • Filip A. M. Volckaert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00256-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The three-spined stickleback is a model species for the study of adaptive divergence. Here, Raeymaekers et al. compare how the three-spined stickleback and its relative the nine-spined stickleback vary at the phenotypic and genomic levels in response to the same spatial and environmental drivers.