Cloning of the alphaA-crystallin genes of a blind cave form and the epigean form of Astyanax fasciatus: a comparative analysis of structure, expression and evolutionary conservation.

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In the present study we have analyzed the integrity and expression of the alphaA-crystallin gene, that codes for a major structural component of the lens, in a blind cave form of the teleostean fish, Astyanax fasciatus. This is the first alphaA-crystallin gene cloned from a teleostean fish. Sequence comparison of this cave-form gene with its epigean conspecific and with homologs of distantly related taxa has...

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