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Evidence Of Morphological Variation Between Bluegill Lepomis Macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819 Populations Across Grand Lake St. Mary’S Watershed, Anthony Jerome Bell
Evidence Of Morphological Variation Between Bluegill Lepomis Macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819 Populations Across Grand Lake St. Mary’S Watershed, Anthony Jerome Bell
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A myriad of factors have been shown to affect the morphology of freshwater fish. Despite the growing base of ecomorphology literature there is little information available exploring how these factors relate to body morphology of Centrarchidae, specifically in the Lepomis genera. Therefore, the objective of this study was to describe variation in body morphology of Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) across Grand Lake St. Mary’s watershed area and test for covariation of morphology with size, sex, and habitat. Geometric morphometric methods were used to assess variation among individuals and general linear models were used to test for covariation of morphology with size, …