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The variation in the body shape of crucian and prussian carps has been studied by methods of geometric morphometrics in sympatric populations from two geographically close lakes in the Southern Urals subjected to different degrees of contamination with anthropogenic radionuclides. Along with particular interspecies features, interpopulation differences have been detected as multidirectional reorganization of cyprinid morphogenesis under different ecological conditions of adjacent lakes. The morphogenetic divergence of crucian carp from adjacent lakes is almost two times smaller than that of the prussian carp coexisting with them. The increased intragroup morphodiversity in prussian carp indicates incomplete adaptation of the fish to anthropogenic radionuclide contamination of the lakes and their high morphogenetic plasticity and high adaptive potential than in crucian carp.
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Baranov, V.Y., Vasil’ev, A.G. Morphological Diversity and Variability of Sympatric Populations of Crucian and Prussian Carps in Radionuclide Contaminated Lakes in the Southern Urals. Russ J Ecol 49, 62–68 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413618010034
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