Restoring sight in blind cavefish

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Borowsky, Richard ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLINDNESS; EVOLUTION; EYE; FISH; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYBRIDIZATION; LETTER; MEXICO; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; VISION;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; EVOLUTION; EYE; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MEXICO; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; VISION;

AMBLYOPSIDAE; ASTYANAX FASCIATUS MEXICANUS; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS;

EID: 37449002836     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.023     Document Type: Letter

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