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Emerging model systems in evo-devo: cavefish and microevolution of development.

Evolution & development - 1 Jan 2000

Jeffery William R

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Cavefish and their conspecific surface-dwelling ancestors (Astyanax mexicanus) are emerging as a model system to study the microevolution of development. Here we describe attributes that make this system highly promising for such studies. We review how the Astyanax system is being used to understand evolutionary forces underlying loss of eyes and pigmentation in cavefish. Pigment regression is probably explained...

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PMID: 18460088
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00235.x
PMCID: PMC3577347

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