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Retrospection - by Prof. Tom Reimchen (University of Victoria, BC, Canada)
Ric’s research exposed me to methods of studying variation in natural populations. One of the techniques involved gill-netting cutthroat trout from the lake, extracting the stickleback from the stomachs and then measuring their size and various defense traits including the bony lateral plates on the side of the fish. Ric got the impression that stickleback with seven lateral plates, which comprised the modal (most common) phenotype in the population, were captured by trout at a lower rate than stickleback
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