Baby fish exercising, a surprising source of adaptive variation in fish jaws

Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 09:22 in Biology & Nature

A frustration of evolutionary biologists is that genetics can account for only a small percent of variation in physical traits. Now researchers have found new results on how another factor, a behavior in early cichlid fish larvae's developmental environment, influences later variation in their craniofacial bones.

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