Evidence for multiple genetic forms with similar eyeless phenotypes in the blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 446-455

  Dowling, Thomas E ^a   Martasian, David P ^a   Jeffery, William R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astyanax mexicanus; mtDNA; ND2; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FISH; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; ASTYANAX; ASTYANAX FASCIATUS MEXICANUS; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; FORBESICHTHYS AGASSIZII; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0036214944     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004100     Document Type: Article

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