Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Evolution: convergent eye losses in fishy circumstances.
- Journal:
- Current biology : CB
- Year:
- 2008
- Authors:
- Niven, Jeremy E
- Affiliation:
- Department of Zoology · United Kingdom
Abstract
Eye loss has occurred independently several times in Mexican cavefish. A new study shows that some aspects of vision can be restored by crossing cavefish from different populations, suggesting that changes at multiple loci contribute to eye loss.
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