From Boston, Mass., at a meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology
Two eyes for a bigger jaw and a more sensitive palate. That’s the evolutionary bargain seemingly struck by certain cave-dwelling fish in Mexico, according to a research group led William R. Jeffery of the University of Maryland in College Park.
The researchers study Astyanax mexicanus, a freshwater fish that has diverged into a sighted, surface-dwelling form and a blind, cave-dwelling form.
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