Practical Applications of the HHMI Stickleback Evolution Virtual Lab
Peter J. Park, Laura Bonetta, Dennis Liu, Ann Brokaw, & Michael A. Bell
Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2014, Volume 35
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Abstract
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stickleback Evolution Virtual Lab introduces students to concepts and techniques
used to analyze the morphology of organisms. The goal of the lab is to understand aspects of evolutionary
adaptation by exploration and measurement of pelvic structures of the threespine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus
aculeatus) from living and fossil populations. Students also investigate the association between patterns of evolutionary
change and known genetic mechanisms underlying pelvic reduction in living and fossil sticklebacks.
The lab exercises are based on genuine field specimens, which students measure to graph, statistically analyze,
and compare with other students. (Virtual lab url: http://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/stickleback/index.
html)
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