Trade-offs in cavefish sensory capacity

BMC Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gunter, Helen ^a   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPSIDAE;

ANIMAL; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; VISION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FISHES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC; VISION, OCULAR;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872435993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-11-5     Document Type: Note

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