The Evolutionary Biology of the Threespine Stickleback (Oxford Science Publications)
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The threespine stickleback is a small fish of temperate coastal and fresh waters that exhibits extraordinary phenotypic diversity. Benefiting from its amenability to observation in the field and manipulation in the laboratory, Niko Tinbergen pioneered the threespine stickleback's use in
behavioral studies and established it as a model system in ethology. This up-to-date volume incorporates reviews from active researchers who use studies of the fish to address a broad variety of evolutionary issues, including optimal foraging, armor variation, speciation, and the endocrine basis
for correlated behavioral characters. The work demonstrates the value of viewing the biology of a single organism simultaneously from multiple perspectives. Students and researchers in ecology, evolution, animal behavior, and vertebrate zoology will find much of interest in this useful book.
The Evolutionary Biology of the Threespine Stickleback (Oxford Science Publications),Michael A. Bell,Susan A. Foster,Oxford University Press, USA,0198577281,Ecology,Evolution,Fish,Ichthyology,Life Sciences - Ecology,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Organic Evolution,Science,Science/Mathematics,Threespine stickleback,Applied ecology,Fishes (ichthyology),Life Sciences | Vertebrate Zoology | Icthyology & herpetology,Science / Ecology
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