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Tetrapod-like pelvic girdle in a walking cavefish

Fishes have adapted a number of different behaviors to move out of the water, but none have been described as being able to walk on land with a tetrapod-like gait. Here we show that the blind cavefish Cryptotora thamicola walks and climbs waterfalls with a salamander-like diagonal-couplets lateral s...

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Autores principales: Flammang, Brooke E., Suvarnaraksha, Apinun, Markiewicz, Julie, Soares, Daphne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4806330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27010864
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep23711