Human Impacts Change Fish Genital Shape (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

Human Impacts Change Fish Genital Shape

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Human-caused habitat changes lead to rapid changes in the shape of fish genitalia. Figure shows the tips of mosquitofish gonopodia in fragmented and unfragmented Bahamian tidal pools. Changes occurred in the past 35 to 50 years.

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Justa Heinen-Kay

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