An Indigenous Religious Ritual Selects For Resistance To A Toxicant In A Livebearing Fish

An Indigenous Religious Ritual Selects For Resistance To A Toxicant In A Livebearing Fish M. Tobler, Z. W. Culumber, M. Plath, K. O. Winemiller, and G. G. Rosenthal, 2010   Human-induced environmental change can affect the evolutionary trajectory of populations. In Mexico, indigenous Zoque people annually introduce barbasco, a fish toxicant, into the Cueva del Azufre to harvest fish during a religious ceremony. Here, we investigated tolerance to barbasco in fish from sites exposed and...

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