Evolution: Convergent eye losses in fishy circumstances
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Eye loss has occurred independently several times in Mexican cavefish. A new study shows that some aspects of vision can be restored by crossing cavefish from different populations, suggesting that changes at multiple loci contribute to eye loss.
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Niven, Jeremy. 2008. "<a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/12092">Evolution: Convergent eye losses in fishy circumstances</a>." <em>Current Biology</em>, 18, (1) 27–29. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.020">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.020</a>.