Distantly Related Fish Find Same Evolutionary Solution to Dark Water (IMAGE)

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Distantly Related Fish Find Same Evolutionary Solution to Dark Water

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Threespine sticklebacks on Haida Gwaii have repeatedly colonized tannin-stained blackwater lakes with a strongly red-shifted light spectrum. Here a male is near its nest at Drizzle lake.

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Thomas E. Reimchen

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