Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Outnumbered and on others' turf, misfits sometimes thrive

06/07/2017 10:32 AM EDT

two male sticklebacks of the same age

Evolutionary biologists have long assumed that when an individual of a species wanders into a different environment than it is adapted to, it will be at a competitive disadvantage compared to natives of the same species which are adapted to that environment. Studying fish in Canada, scientists found the opposite.


Full story at https://news.utexas.edu/2017/05/31/outnumbered-and-on-others-turf-misfits-sometimes-thrive

Source
University of Texas at Austin


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