Stickleback research: the now and the next

AP Hendry, CL Peichel, B Matthews… - Evolutionary …, 2013 - evolutionary-ecology.com
Background: Stickleback fishes are an outstanding model for understanding evolution and
ecology. Celebrating successes and identifying new questions, the Seventh International …

Enhancing the colouration of the marine ornamental fish Pseudochromis fridmani using natural and synthetic sources of astaxanthin

J Jiang, W Nuez-Ortin, A Angell, C Zeng, R de Nys… - Algal Research, 2019 - Elsevier
This study quantifies the effects of astaxanthin concentration as a dietary supplement (25,
50, 75, and 100 ppm) and supplementation time (0, 14, 28, 42, 56, and 70 days) on the …

Genetic architecture of conspicuous red ornaments in female threespine stickleback

L Yong, CL Peichel, JS McKinnon - G3: Genes, Genomes …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Explaining the presence of conspicuous female ornaments that take the form of male-typical
traits has been a longstanding challenge in evolutionary biology. Such female ornaments …

The freshwater macroalga Oedogonium intermedium can meet the nutritional requirements of the herbivorous fish Ancistrus cirrhosus

MJ Vucko, AJ Cole, JA Moorhead, J Pit, R de Nys - Algal research, 2017 - Elsevier
The macroalga Oedogonium intermedium has a diverse elemental profile, high energy
potential, high lipid content, a high proportion of essential amino acids and a total …

anyFish: an open-source software to generate animated fish models for behavioural studies

T Veen, SJ Ingley, R Cui, J Simpson… - Evolutionary …, 2013 - evolutionary-ecology.com
Problem: Using an experimental approach to study behaviours based on visual signals is
severely limited due to the difficulty of combining realistic models (eg live fish) with the …

Carotenoids‐based reddish pelvic spines in nonreproducing female and male sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) – Signalling social dominance?

KK Kroken, AA Sæthre, O Nicolaisen… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Conspicuous ornaments are often considered a result of evolution by sexual selection.
According to the social selection hypothesis, such conspicuous traits may also evolve as …

Gene expression in male and female stickleback from populations with convergent and divergent throat coloration

JS McKinnon, WB Newsome… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding of genetic mechanisms underlying variation in sexual dichromatism remains
limited, especially for carotenoid‐based colors. We addressed this knowledge gap in a gene …

Conspicuous Female Ornamentation and Tests of Male Mate Preference in Threespine Sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

DS Wright, MER Pierotti, HD Rundle, JS McKinnon - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Sexual selection drives the evolution of exaggerated male ornaments in many animal
species. Female ornamentation is now acknowledged also to be common but is generally …

Phenotypic correlates of pelvic spine coloration in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): implications for function and evolution

CM Anderson, JS McKinnon - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2022 - Springer
Animal color patches may be static or plastic in expression and concealable or continuously
visible, yet the evolution and function of these aspects of coloration have seldom been …

Conspicuous carotenoid-based pelvic spine ornament in three-spined stickleback populations—occurrence and inheritance

CR Amundsen, JT Nordeide, HM Gjøen, B Larsen… - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Reports on reddish carotenoid-based ornaments in female three-spined sticklebacks
(Gasterosteus aculeatus) are few, despite the large interest in the species' behaviour …