Crater lake cichlids individually specialize along the benthic–limnetic axis
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Crater lake cichlids individually specialize along the benthic–limnetic axis
A common pattern of adaptive diversification in freshwater fishes is the repeated evolution of elongated open water (limnetic) species and high-bodied shore (benthic) species from generalist ancestors. Studies on phenotype-diet correlations have suggested that population-wide individual specialization occurs at an early evolutionary and ecological stage of divergence and niche partitioning. Thi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2045-7758,2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1015