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ICHTHYOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages 24-33Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s10228-005-0310-6
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ecomorphology; morphometrics; polymorphism; South America
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Morphometric analyses of 220 specimens of a characid, Bryconops sp. cf. melanurus, from the Brazilian Pantanal were used to describe allometric growth in that species and determine whether specimens from highland habitats were more streamlined than those from lowland habitats. Relative warp analysis of 14 landmarks and principal component analysis of 28 interlandmark distances returned complementary results. The increased streamlining of the highland specimens is highly consistent with known inductive effects of high water velocity on fish phenotypes. Genetic differentiation and inductive effects of temperature variation are also potential explanations of the observed phenotypic differentiation.
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