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Three-spined stickleback fish live in lakes formed when the last ice age ended
a. In crosses between fish of the two different morphologies, the lack of bony armor segregates as a recessive trait that maps to the ectodermal dysplasia (Eda) gene. Comparisons between the Eda
b. Loss
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