The making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaptation

The Making of the Fittest:
Evolving Bodies, Evolving Switches
REFERENCES
Modern Stickleback Populations
In-Depth Guide
IN-DEPTH FILM GUIDE
TEACHER MATERIALS
Bell, M. A., Ortí, G., Walker, J. A., and Koenings, J. P. 1993. Evolution of pelvic reduction in threespine stickleback fish: a test of competing hypotheses.
Evolution 47:906–914.
Bell, M. A., and Ortí, G. 1994. Pelvic reduction in threespine stickleback from Cook Inlet lakes: geographical distribution and intrapopulation variation.
Copeia 2:314–325.
Bell, M. A., Khalef, V., and Travis, M. P. 2007. Directional asymmetry of pelvic vestiges in threespine stickleback. J. Exp. Zool. 308B:189–199.
Fossil Stickleback
Bell, M. A. Palaeobiology and evolution of threespine stickleback (Chapter 15; p. 438–471). In The Evolutionary Biology of the Threespine Stickleback,
edited by Michael A. Bell and Susan A. Foster. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Genetics
Shapiro, M. D., et al. 2004. Genetics and developmental basis of evolutionary pelvic reduction in threespine sticklebacks. Nature 428:717–723.
Chan, Y. F., et al. 2010. Adaptive evolution of pelvic reduction in sticklebacks by recurrent deletion of a Pitx1 enhancer. Science 327:302–305.
Shen, H. Stickleback genomes reveal path of evolution. Nature News. April 4, 2012.
Jones, F., et al. 2012. The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks. Nature 484, 55–61.
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