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Standing Up for Sticklebacks

Author(s) -

Olivier Pourquié

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.052

Subject(s) - biology , evolutionary biology , vertebrate , adaptation (eye) , evolutionary developmental biology , phenotypic plasticity , bipedalism , stickleback , ecological niche , human evolutionary genetics , niche , gene , ecology , genetics , phylogenetics , fish <actinopterygii> , neuroscience , anatomy , fishery , habitat

The morphology of the vertebrate skeleton exhibits tremendous plasticity in evolution, allowing adaptation to a wide variety of ecological niches and lifestyles. Indjeian et al. now uncover how the cis regulation of a gene controls skeletal variation in fish and might have contributed to the evolution of bipedalism in humans.

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