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Evolution of eye development in the darkness of caves: adaptation, drift, or both?

Animals inhabiting the darkness of caves are generally blind and de-pigmented, regardless of the phylum they belong to. Survival in this environment is an enormous challenge, the most obvious being to find food and mates without the help of vision, and the loss of eyes in cave animals is often accom...

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Autores principales: Rétaux, Sylvie, Casane, Didier
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/PMC3849642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24079393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-9139-4-26