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Douglas P Swain1

  • 1Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1W5, CANADA.

Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution
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Burst speedGasterosteuslocomotor performancemorphological variationnatural selectionperformance gradientvertebral number

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