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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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Autores principales: Simon, Victor, Elleboode, Romain, Mahé, Kélig, Legendre, Laurent, Ornelas-Garcia, Patricia, Espinasa, Luis, Rétaux, Sylvie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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