Evolution of an adaptive behavior and its sensory receptors promotes eye regression in blind cavefish

BACKGROUND: How and why animals lose eyesight during adaptation to the dark and food-limited cave environment has puzzled biologists since the time of Darwin. More recently, several different adaptive hypotheses have been proposed to explain eye degeneration based on studies in the teleost Astyanax...

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Autores principales: Yoshizawa, Masato, Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki, O'Quin, Kelly E, Jeffery, William R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23270452
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-108

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23270452
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-108

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