The rise ofAstyanaxcavefish

Complex Craniofacial Changes in Blind Cave-Dwelling Fish Are Mediated by Genetically Symmetric and Asymmetric Loci

(2014) Joshua B. Gross et al.   GENETICS

Next generation phylogeography of cave and surface Astyanax mexicanus

(2014) Lyndon M. Coghill et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Astyanax Transgenesis and Husbandry: How Cavefish Enters the Laboratory

(2014) Yannick Elipot et al.   Zebrafish

The cavefish genome reveals candidate genes for eye loss

(2014) Suzanne E. McGaugh et al.   Nature Communications

The role of a lens survival pathway including sox2 and αA-crystallin in the evolution of cavefish eye degeneration

(2014) Li Ma et al.   EvoDevo

Parallel reduction in expression, but no loss of functional constraint, in two opsin paralogs within cave populations of Gammarus minus (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

(2013) David B Carlini et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Loss of Schooling Behavior in Cavefish through Sight-Dependent and Sight-Independent Mechanisms

(2013) Johanna E. Kowalko et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Albinism in phylogenetically and geographically distinct populations of Astyanax cavefish arises through the same loss-of-function Oca2 allele

(2013) J B Gross et al.   HEREDITY

The Lateral Line System is Not Necessary for Rheotaxis in the Mexican Blind Cavefish (Astyanax fasciatus)

(2013) W. J. Van Trump et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The sensitivity of lateral line receptors and their role in the behavior of Mexican blind cavefish (Astyanax mexicanus)

(2013) M. Yoshizawa et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Population Genomics of Repeated Evolution in the Blind Cavefish Astyanax mexicanus

(2013) Martina Bradic et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Confidence and precision increase with high statistical power

(2013) Katherine S. Button et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Retinal Degeneration in the Blind Cavefish Astyanax mexicanus

(2013) Kelly E. O'Quin et al.   PLoS One

An Integrated Transcriptome-Wide Analysis of Cave and Surface Dwelling Astyanax mexicanus

(2013) Joshua B. Gross et al.   PLoS One

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

A Potential Benefit of Albinism in Astyanax Cavefish: Downregulation of the oca2 Gene Increases Tyrosine and Catecholamine Levels as an Alternative to Melanin Synthesis

(2013) Helena Bilandžija et al.   PLoS One

Cryptic Variation in Morphological Evolution: HSP90 as a Capacitor for Loss of Eyes in Cavefish

(2013) N. Rohner et al.   SCIENCE

Darwin’s Difficulties and Students’ Struggles with Trait Loss: Cognitive-Historical Parallelisms in Evolutionary Explanation

(2013) Minsu Ha et al.   Science & Education

A Flexible Approach for the Analysis of Rare Variants Allowing for a Mixture of Effects on Binary or Quantitative Traits

(2013) Geraldine M. Clarke et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

β-Adrenergic Signaling Regulates Evolutionarily Derived Sleep Loss in the Mexican Cavefish

(2012) Erik R. Duboué et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Evolutionary Shift from Fighting to Foraging in Blind Cavefish through Changes in the Serotonin Network

(2012) Yannick Elipot et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genome-wide association study indicates two novel resistance loci for severe malaria

(2012) Christian Timmann et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary Convergence on Sleep Loss in Cavefish Populations

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

Population genetic patterns revealed by microsatellite data challenge the mitochondrial DNA based taxonomy of Astyanax in Mexico (Characidae, Teleostei)

(2011) Bernhard Hausdorf 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

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

(2011) Hélène Hinaux et al.   Zebrafish

Signatures of Environmental Genetic Adaptation Pinpoint Pathogens as the Main Selective Pressure through Human Evolution

(2011) Matteo Fumagalli et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

(2010) Masato Yoshizawa et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

Developmental constraints in regressive evolution: studies of the expression of the γs-crystallin gene in the developing lens of cave-dwelling Astyanax fasciatus (Cuvier, 1819) (Teleostei, Characidae) by in situ hybridization

(2010) T. G. Langecker et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Der Micos-Fisch, Höhlenfisch in statu nascendi oder Bastard ?

(2010) Von N. Peters et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

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

A Novel Role for Mc1r in the Parallel Evolution of Depigmentation in Independent Populations of the Cavefish Astyanax mexicanus

(2009) Joshua B. Gross et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

The function of wall-following behaviors in the Mexican blind cavefish and a sighted relative, the Mexican tetra (Astyanax)

(2008) Saurabh Sharma et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Shadow response in the blind cavefish Astyanax reveals conservation of a functional pineal eye

(2008) M. Yoshizawa et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL 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

Evolutionary mutant models for human disease

(2008) R. Craig Albertson et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS