The importance of selection in the evolution of blindness in cavefish

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 oppo...

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izdano v:BMC Evol Biol
Main Authors: Cartwright, Reed A., Schwartz, Rachel S., Merry, Alexandra L., Howell, Megan M.
Format: Artigo
Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: BioMed Central 2017
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Online dostop:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5297207/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28173751
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-0876-4
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