Gut length and mass in herbivorous and carnivorous prickleback fishes (Teleostei: Stichaeidae): ontogenetic, dietary, and phylogenetic effects

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Nutritional ecology of marine herbivorous fishes: ten years on (2009, background): “2006), especially when comparisons involve unrelated species (German & Horn 2006).”
Zebrafish as a model organism for nutrition and growth: towards comparative studies of nutritional genomics applied to aquacultured fishes (2011, background): “…X. atropurpureus (carnivore) increased its gut dimensions reaching a size similar to its sister taxon, X. mucosus (herbivore), suggesting a phylogenetic influence, but it also decreased its gut dimensions on the high-protein artificial diet, suggesting phenotypic plasticity (German and Horn 2006).”
Diet predicts intestine length in Lake Tanganyika’s cichlid fishes (2009, background): “Evolu- tionary relationships within the clades surveyed in previous studies are poorly known, thereby limiting phylogenetic com- parisons of gut length patterns to higher taxonomic groups or comparisons between sister taxa (e.g. De Groot 1971; Ger- man & Horn 2006).”