Evolution of eye development in the darkness of caves: adaptation, drift, or both?

Evolution of an adaptive behavior and its sensory receptors promotes eye regression in blind cavefish: response to Borowsky (2013)

(2013) Masato Yoshizawa et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Eye regression in blind Astyanax cavefish may facilitate the evolution of an adaptive behavior and its sensory receptors

(2013) Richard Borowsky   BMC BIOLOGY

Mutation Rates: How Low Can You Go?

(2013) Paul Sniegowski et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolution of the Eye Transcriptome under Constant Darkness in Sinocyclocheilus Cavefish

(2013) Fanwei Meng et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The genomic signature of dog domestication reveals adaptation to a starch-rich diet

(2013) Erik Axelsson et al.   NATURE

De Novo Sequencing of Astyanax mexicanus Surface Fish and Pachón Cavefish Transcriptomes Reveals Enrichment of Mutations in Cavefish Putative Eye Genes

(2013) Hélène Hinaux et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of an adaptive behavior and its sensory receptors promotes eye regression in blind cavefish

(2012) Masato Yoshizawa et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Gene flow and population structure in the Mexican blind cavefish complex (Astyanax mexicanus)

(2012) Martina Bradic et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The complex origin of Astyanax cavefish

(2012) Joshua B Gross   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Development of the sensory nervous system in the vertebrate head: the importance of being on time

(2012) Laura Lleras-Forero et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

EVIDENCE FOR REPEATED LOSS OF SELECTIVE CONSTRAINT IN RHODOPSIN OF AMBLYOPSID CAVEFISHES (TELEOSTEI: AMBLYOPSIDAE)

(2012) Matthew L. Niemiller et al.   EVOLUTION

Parallel reduction in expression of the eye development gene hedgehog in separately derived cave populations of the amphipod Gammarus minus

(2012) A. C. ASPIRAS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Drift-barrier hypothesis and mutation-rate evolution

(2012) W. Sung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Restoring eye size in Astyanax mexicanus blind cavefish embryos through modulation of the Shh and Fgf8 forebrain organising centres

(2011) K. Pottin et al.   DEVELOPMENT

DELIMITING SPECIES USING MULTILOCUS DATA: DIAGNOSING CRYPTIC DIVERSITY IN THE SOUTHERN CAVEFISH, TYPHLICHTHYS SUBTERRANEUS (TELEOSTEI: AMBLYOPSIDAE)

(2011) Matthew L. Niemiller et al.   EVOLUTION

The Lower Bound to the Evolution of Mutation Rates

(2011) Michael Lynch   Genome Biology and Evolution

Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the Cuban cave-fishes of the genus Lucifuga: Evidence for cryptic allopatric diversity

(2011) Erik García-Machado et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Parallel speciation in Astyanax cave fish (Teleostei) in Northern Mexico

(2011) Ulrike Strecker et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Genome sequencing reveals insights into physiology and longevity of the naked mole rat

(2011) Eun Bae Kim et al.   NATURE

Shared and Unique Patterns of Embryo Development in Extremophile Poeciliids

(2011) Rüdiger Riesch et al.   PLoS One

A Developmental Staging Table for Astyanax mexicanus Surface Fish and Pachón Cavefish

(2011) Hélène Hinaux et al.   Zebrafish

Extreme lifespan of the human fish (Proteus anguinus): a challenge for ageing mechanisms

(2010) Y. Voituron et al.   Biology Letters

Multi-trait evolution in a cave fish, Astyanax mexicanus

(2010) Meredith Protas et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

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

(2010) William R. Jeffery   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Pleiotropy and eye degeneration in cavefish

(2010) W R Jeffery   HEREDITY

Midline Signaling and Evolution of the Forebrain in Chordates: A Focus on the Lamprey Hedgehog Case

(2010) Sylvie Rétaux et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Evolution in caves: Darwin’s ‘wrecks of ancient life’ in the molecular era

(2010) CARLOS JUAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2010) S. Ossowski et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of the mutation rate

(2010) Michael Lynch   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Pleiotropic functions of embryonic sonic hedgehog expression link jaw and taste bud amplification with eye loss during cavefish evolution

(2009) Yoshiyuki Yamamoto et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Taste bud development and patterning in sighted and blind morphs ofAstyanax mexicanus

(2009) Nirupa Varatharasan et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

The limits of cryptic diversity in groundwater: phylogeography of the cave shrimpTroglocaris anophthalmus(Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae)

(2009) VALERIJA ZAKšEK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

DNA barcoding of stygofauna uncovers cryptic amphipod diversity in a calcrete aquifer in Western Australia’s arid zone

(2009) T. BRADFORD et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Adaptive Evolution of Pelvic Reduction in Sticklebacks by Recurrent Deletion of a Pitx1 Enhancer

(2009) Y. F. Chan et al.   SCIENCE

Negligible senescence in the longest living rodent, the naked mole-rat: insights from a successfully aging species

(2008) Rochelle Buffenstein   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY