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The evolution of a series of behavioral traits is associated with autism-risk genes in cavefish

BACKGROUND: An essential question in evolutionary biology is whether shifts in a set of polygenic behaviors share a genetic basis across species. Such a behavioral shift is seen in the cave-dwelling Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus. Relative to surface-dwelling conspecifics, cavefish do not school...

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Autores principales: Yoshizawa, Masato, Settle, Alexander, Hermosura, Meredith C., Tuttle, Lillian J., Cetraro, Nicolas, Passow, Courtney N., McGaugh, Suzanne E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6004695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29909776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1199-9