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The importance of selection in the evolution of blindness in cavefish.

BMC evolutionary biology - 7 Feb 2017

Cartwright Reed A, Schwartz Rachel S, Merry Alexandra L, Howell Megan M

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BACKGROUND: Blindness has evolved repeatedly in cave-dwelling organisms, and many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this observation, including both accumulation of neutral loss-of-function mutations and adaptation to darkness. Investigating the loss of sight in cave dwellers presents an opportunity to understand the operation of fundamental evolutionary processes, including drift, selection, mutation, and...

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PMID: 28173751
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-0876-4
PMCID: PMC5297207

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