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

The multiple roles for Sox2 in stem cell maintenance and tumorigenesis

(2013) Kuancan Liu et al.   CELLULAR SIGNALLING

Chaperone Peptides of α-Crystallin Inhibit Epithelial Cell Apoptosis, Protein Insolubilization, and Opacification in Experimental Cataracts

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

(2013) Kelly E. O'Quin 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

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

(2013) Sylvie Rétaux et al.   EvoDevo

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

(2012) Masato Yoshizawa et al.   BMC 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

Multi-trait evolution in a cave fish, Astyanax mexicanus

(2010) Meredith Protas et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The anti-apoptotic function of human αA-crystallin is directly related to its chaperone activity

(2010) N Pasupuleti et al.   Cell Death & Disease

Regressive Evolution inAstyanaxCavefish

(2009) William R. Jeffery   Annual Review of Genetics

Stage-dependent modes of Pax6-Sox2 epistasis regulate lens development and eye morphogenesis

(2009) A. N. Smith et al.   DEVELOPMENT

SOX–partner code for cell specification: Regulatory target selection and underlying molecular mechanisms

(2009) Hisato Kondoh et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Restoring sight in blind cavefish

(2008) Richard Borowsky   CURRENT BIOLOGY

SOX2Plays a Critical Role in the Pituitary, Forebrain, and Eye during Human Embryonic Development

(2008) Daniel Kelberman et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

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

Sox2 signaling in prosensory domain specification and subsequent hair cell differentiation in the developing cochlea

(2008) A. Dabdoub et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA