Colonisation of toxic environments drives predictable life-history evolution in livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae)

Rudiger Riesch, Martin Plath, Ingo Schlupp, Michael Tobler, R. Brian Langerhans

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)65-71
Number of pages7
JournalEcology Letters
Volume17
Issue number1
Early online date4 Nov 2013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2014

Keywords

  • divergent natural selection
  • ecological speciation
  • extreme environments
  • Gambusia
  • life-history evolution
  • phenotypic convergence
  • Poecilia
  • replicated evolution
  • offspring size
  • live-bearing
  • hydrogen sulfide
  • molecular phylogeny
  • adaptation
  • fecundity

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