Journal Article
Gene flow and population structure in the Mexican blind cavefish complex (Astyanax mexicanus)
Bradic, M., Beerli, P., Garcia-de Leon, F.J., Esquivel-Bobadilla, S. and Borowsky, R.L.
Record Number:
2981
Year:
2012
Journal:
BMC Evolutionary Biology
Volume:
12:9
Abstract:
Background: Cave animals converge evolutionarily on a suite of troglomorphic traits, the best known of which are eyelessness and depigmentation. We studied 11 cave and 10 surface populations of Astyanax mexicanus in order to better understand the evolutionary origins of the cave forms, the basic genetic structuring of both cave and surface populations, and the degree to which present day migration among them affects their genetic divergence.
Times Cited:
1
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