Parallel body shape divergence in the Neotropical fish genus Rhoadsia (Teleostei: Characidae) along elevational gradients of the western slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes

• Grace Malato,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Virginia R. Shervette,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology/Geology, University of South Carolina, Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Ronald Navarrete Amaya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Urbanización Paraíso del Río 1, Guayaquil, Ecuador

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• Jonathan Valdiviezo Rivera,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museo de Ciencias Naturales del Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Ecuador

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• Fredy Nugra Salazar,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Zoología de Vertebrados de la Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador

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• Paola Calle Delgado,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador

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• Kirby C. Karpan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Windsor E. Aguirre

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: waguirre@depaul.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3641-5120

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