The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks

The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks:
The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks

Nature 484, 7392 (2012). doi:10.1038/nature10944

Authors: Felicity C. Jones, Manfred G. Grabherr, Yingguang Frank Chan, Pamela Russell, Evan Mauceli, Jeremy Johnson, Ross Swofford, Mono Pirun, Michael C. Zody, Simon White, Ewan Birney, Stephen Searle, Jeremy Schmutz, Jane Grimwood, Mark C. Dickson, Richard M. Myers, Craig T. Miller, Brian R. Summers, Anne K. Knecht, Shannon D. Brady, Haili Zhang, Alex A. Pollen, Timothy Howes, Chris Amemiya, Eric S. Lander, Federica Di Palma, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh & David M. Kingsley
Marine stickleback fish have colonized and adapted to thousands of streams and lakes formed since the last ice age, providing an exceptional opportunity to characterize genomic mechanisms underlying repeated ecological adaptation in nature. Here we develop a high-quality reference genome assembly for threespine sticklebacks. By