Stickleback Evolution (VIDEO)

University of Oregon

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University of Oregon biologist William Cresko, speaking from his lab, provides an overview of a paper published in PLoS Genetics in which his team discovered a specific region of genes involved in the genomic adaptation of saltwater populations of stickleback fish to freshwater lakes in Alaska.

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