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Eye regression in blind Astyanax cavefish may facilitate the evolution of an adaptive behavior and its sensory receptors

The forces driving the evolutionary loss or simplification of traits such as vision and pigmentation in cave animals are still debated. Three alternative hypotheses are direct selection against the trait, genetic drift, and indirect selection due to antagonistic pleiotropy. Recent work establishes t...

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Autor principal: Borowsky, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3726320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23844714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-11-81