Behavioural changes controlled by catecholaminergic systems explain recurrent loss of pigmentation in cavefish

Melanization in response to wounding is ancestral in arthropods and conserved in albino cave species

(2017) Helena Bilandžija et al.   Scientific Reports

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(2015) Joshua B. Gross et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Complex Evolutionary and Genetic Patterns Characterize the Loss of Scleral Ossification in the Blind Cavefish Astyanax mexicanus

(2015) Kelly E. O’Quin et al.   PLoS One

Anaesthetic Tricaine Acts Preferentially on Neural Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels and Fails to Block Directly Evoked Muscle Contraction

(2014) Seetharamaiah Attili et al.   PLoS One

A mutation in the enzyme monoamine oxidase explains part of the Astyanax cavefish behavioural syndrome

(2014) Yannick Elipot et al.   Nature Communications

A Sleep/Wake Circuit Controls Isoflurane Sensitivity in Drosophila

(2013) Benjamin Kottler et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

Melanogenesis in visceral tissues of Salmo salar. A link between immunity and pigment production?

(2012) Marcella Arciuli et al.   Biochemistry and Cell Biology

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

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

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

(2012) Helena Bilandžija et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Evolution of Space Dependent Growth in the Teleost Astyanax mexicanus

(2012) Natalya D. Gallo et al.   PLoS One

Noradrenergic modulation of wakefulness/arousal

(2012) Craig W. Berridge et al.   SLEEP MEDICINE REVIEWS

Evolution and development in cave animals: from fish to crustaceans

(2012) Meredith Protas et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology

Evolutionary Convergence on Sleep Loss in Cavefish Populations

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

Sleep and general anesthesia

(2010) Nicholas P. Franks et al.   Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal canadien d anesthesie

General Anesthetic Actions on GABAA Receptors

(2010) Paul Garcia et al.   Current Neuropharmacology

Interactive effects of development and hypoxia on catecholamine synthesis and cardiac function in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

(2010) Shelby L. Steele et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

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

(2010) CARLOS JUAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A review of tricaine methanesulfonate for anesthesia of fish

(2010) Kathleen M. Carter et al.   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Increased Volatile Anesthetic Requirement in Short-sleeping Drosophila Mutants

(2009) Bernd Weber et al.   ANESTHESIOLOGY

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

Evolution of Coloration Patterns

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