Development as an evolutionary process in Astyanax cavefish

Biology of Subterranean Fishes

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 141-168

  Jeffery, William R ^a   Strickler, Allen G ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/EBK1578086702     Document Type: Chapter

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