Evolution and development in cave animals: from fish to crustaceans

Evolution of albinism in cave planthoppers by a convergent defect in the first step of melanin biosynthesis

(2012) Helena Bilandžija et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Genetic differentiation between cave and surface-dwelling populations of Garra barreimiae (Cyprinidae) in Oman

(2011) Luise Kruckenhauser et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Drosophila as a Developmental Paradigm of Regressive Brain Evolution: Proof of Principle in the Visual System

(2011) Markus Friedrich   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Evolutionary Convergence on Sleep Loss in Cavefish Populations

(2011) Erik R. Duboué et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

Phototransduction and clock gene expression in the troglobiont beetle Ptomaphagus hirtus of Mammoth cave

(2011) M. Friedrich et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 February 2011-31 March 2011

(2011) et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

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

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

Genetic basis of eye and pigment loss in the cave crustacean, Asellus aquaticus

(2011) M. E. Protas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2010) Y. Voituron et al.   Biology Letters

Evolution of a Behavioral Shift Mediated by Superficial Neuromasts Helps Cavefish Find Food in Darkness

(2010) Masato Yoshizawa et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Toxic hydrogen sulfide and dark caves: life-history adaptations in a livebearing fish (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae)

(2010) Rüdiger Riesch et al.   ECOLOGY

Multi-trait evolution in a cave fish, Astyanax mexicanus

(2010) Meredith Protas et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Pleiotropy and eye degeneration in cavefish

(2010) W R Jeffery   HEREDITY

Genes, modules and the evolution of cave fish

(2010) H Wilkens   HEREDITY

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

(2010) CARLOS JUAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Colour polymorphism and correlated characters: genetic mechanisms and evolution

(2010) JEFFREY S. MCKINNON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function

(2010) Joanna K. Hubbard et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Regressive Evolution inAstyanaxCavefish

(2009) William R. Jeffery   Annual Review of 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

Probing the evolution of appendage specialization by Hox gene misexpression in an emerging model crustacean

(2009) A. Pavlopoulos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Knockdown of Parhyale Ultrabithorax recapitulates evolutionary changes in crustacean appendage morphology

(2009) D. M. Liubicich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of Coloration Patterns

(2008) Meredith E. Protas et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Shh and forebrain evolution in the blind cavefish Astyanax mexicanus

(2008) Sylvie Rétaux et al.   BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Evolutionary history of the fish genus Astyanax Baird & Girard (1854) (Actinopterygii, Characidae) in Mesoamerica reveals multiple morphological homoplasies

(2008) Claudia Ornelas-García et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Restoring sight in blind cavefish

(2008) Richard Borowsky   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Synteny and candidate gene prediction using an anchored linkage map of Astyanax mexicanus

(2008) J. B. Gross et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Are we there yet? Tracking the development of new model systems

(2008) Arhat Abzhanov et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS