PORTLAND, Ore. — A tendency for daughters to fall for guys that are like their dads helps keep two species of fish from interbreeding.
NOT INTERESTED Early experience with dad’s odor may help keep the two species of threespine stickleback from interbreeding, even though they share the same lake. Todd Hatfield
Two distinct species of the threespine stickleback dart about in several lakes of British Columbia, where the two fishes could easily mate with each other.
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