The nature and distribution of putative non-functional alleles suggest only two independent events at the origins of Astyanax mexicanus cavefish populations

Several studies suggested that cavefish populations of Astyanax mexicanus settled during the Late Pleistocene. This implies that the cavefish ’s most conspicuous phenotypic changes, blindness and depigmentation, a...
Source: BMC Evolutionary Biology - Category: Molecular Biology Authors: Tags: Research Source Type: research