Multiple photopigments from the Mexican blind cavefish, Astyanax fasciatus: a microspectrophotometric study.
The cave-dwelling (hypogean) form of the teleost Astyanax fasciatus is blind, having only subdermal eye rudiments, but nevertheless maintains intact opsin genes. Second generation offspring of a cross between these and the normally sighted surface (epigean) form inherit opsin genes from both ancestr...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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