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The nested MANCOVAs revealed that habitat type had a significant effect on morphological divergence of the gudgeons in terms of both head and whole-body morphologies (Table 3).

Changes in Hox-regulated target gene sets are, in general, likely to underlie the morphological divergence of homologous structures between animals.

We hypothesized that natural selection might favor morphological divergence of multiple features (body units).

Individuals of the species P. cristiceps were seen to have a series of variations beyond those normally recognized (such as general color pattern), and we therefore considered the morphological divergence of the coloration patterns in populations as being due to environmental or genetic fluctuations over time [18].

However, it should be noted that with both genes, the gray whale's (Eschrichtius robustus, Family Eschrichtidae) placement with respect to the Balaenopteridae makes the latter paraphyletic, although this has been recorded previously [11], [30], [64], [66], indicating a significant morphological divergence of the gray whale from a balanaeopterid ancestor [62], [66].

Combined evidence for more substantial morphological divergence of BLUE and a lack of lineage-wide introgression between S-RED and BLUE [20], despite periods of secondary contact of neighbouring populations, is consistent with the suggestion that assortative female preference is more effective than post-mating isolation in maintaining morphological differentiation between divergent populations.

Finally, a Mantel test comparison of the PST and FST matrices indicated that there was a broad tendency for high levels of pairwise morphological divergence to be associated with high values of pairwise microsatellite DNA divergence across a broad range of h values used in calculating PST (i.e., h = 0.25 0.75, Z = 45.6 76.5, r = 0.25 0.28, P = 0.01 0.008, e.g., Fig. 6).

We removed this constraint by analyzing each assemblage separately, which allows the axes of morphological divergence to be defined independently for each assemblage.

The solid black line, showing morphological divergence in volume of the olfactory bulbs, diverges from the broken line, showing the pattern under Brownian motion, at about 6 MYA and a sharp peak between 4 - 2 MYA.

In this study we explore patterns of morphological divergence and the genetic signature of recent isolation in populations of nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) in northern Sweden.

Although this study provided evidence of genetic-based morphological divergence in reservoirs, assessment of several other lines of investigation are needed.