Development and evolution of craniofacial patterning is mediated by eye-dependent and -independent processes in the cavefish Astyanax

Evolution and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 435-446

  Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki ^a   Espinasa, Luis ^a,b   Stock, David W ^c   Jeffery, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CAVERNICOLOUS SPECIES; CRANIUM; EVOLUTION; EYE; FISH;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; EYE; FISH; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; LENS; MEXICO; MORPHOGENESIS; ORBIT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; EYE; FISHES; HEAD; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MEXICO; ORBIT; TEXAS;

ANIMALIA; ASTYANAX; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; FORBESICHTHYS AGASSIZII; TELEOST FISH; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141789564     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03050.x     Document Type: Article

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