Why cavefish are blind

BioEssays

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-238

  Tian, Natasha M M L ^a   Price, David J ^a  

^a Centre for Integrative Physiology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; BLINDNESS; CAVEFISH; DEGENERATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FISH; GENETIC REGULATION; LENS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TELEOST; ANIMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASTYANAX; ERINACEIDAE; FORBESICHTHYS AGASSIZII;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; EYE PROTEINS; FISHES; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 15944371549     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20202     Document Type: Review

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