genus gasterosteus


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Noun1.genus gasterosteus - type genus of the family Gasterosteidaegenus gasterosteus - type genus of the family Gasterosteidae
Gasterosteus
fish genus - any of various genus of fish
family Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteidae - sticklebacks
Gasterosteus aculeatus, three-spined stickleback - of rivers and coastal regions
Gasterosteus pungitius, ten-spined stickleback - confined to rivers
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Threespine sticklebacks, in the genus Gasterosteus, also show evolution marching down similar paths in similar places, according to Howard D.
Evolution may not be slow or random
Genetic evidence supporting the existence of two distinct species in the genus Gasterosteus around Japan.
Parallel evolution of lake-stream pairs of threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus) inferred from mitochondrial DNA variation

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