On the sighted ancestry of blindness – exceptionally preserved eyes of Mesozoic polychelidan lobsters

BACKGROUND: Modern representatives of Polychelida (Polychelidae) are considered to be entirely blind and have largely reduced eyes, possibly as an adaptation to deep-sea environments. Fossil species of Polychelida, however, appear to have well-developed compound eyes preserved as anterior bulges wit...

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Autores principales: Audo, Denis, Haug, Joachim T., Haug, Carolin, Charbonnier, Sylvain, Schweigert, Günter, Müller, Carsten H. G., Harzsch, Steffen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27429789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-016-0049-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27429789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-016-0049-0

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