Evolution: Convergent Eye Losses in Fishy Circumstances

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Niven, Jeremy E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLINDNESS; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; EYE; FISH; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYBRIDIZATION; MEXICO; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; EVOLUTION; EYE; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MEXICO; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; VISION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

AMBLYOPSIDAE;

EID: 37549028830     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.020     Document Type: Short Survey

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