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Comparing growth in surface and cave morphs of the species Astyanax mexicanus: insights from scales
BACKGROUND: Life in the darkness of caves is accompanied, throughout phyla, by striking phenotypic changes including the loss or severe reduction in eyes and pigmentation. On the other hand, cave animals have undergone constructive changes, thought to be adaptive, to survive in this extreme environm...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710000/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29214008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13227-017-0086-6 |