Biological clocks and visual systems in cave-adapted animals at the dawn of speleogenomics

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-67

  Friedrich, Markus ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879668341     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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