Genetic basis of eye and pigment loss in the cave crustacean, Asellus aquaticus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5702-5707

  Protas, Meredith E ^a,b   Trontelj, Peter ^c,d   Patel, Nipam H ^a,b  

^a Center of Integrative Genomics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Mapping; Regressive evolution; Subterranean

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ASELLUS AQUATICUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRUSTACEA; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCULAR ALBINISM; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN APPENDAGE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ASELLUS; ASELLUS AQUATICUS; CRUSTACEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955040565     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013850108     Document Type: Article

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