Cavefish eye loss in response to an early block in retinal differentiation progression

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 743-752

  Stemmer, Manuel ^a   Schuhmacher, Laura Nadine ^a,d   Foulkes, Nicholas S ^a,b   Bertolucci, Cristiano ^c   Wittbrodt, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astyanax mexicanus; Evolution; Eye morphogenesis; Phreatichthys andruzzii; Retinal development; Troglomorphism

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEGENERATION; DIFFERENTIATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS; MARKER GENE; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NEUROECTODERM; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHREATICHTHYS ANDRUZZII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STEM CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; EYE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA;

AMBLYOPSIDAE; ANIMALIA; ASTYANAX; ASTYANAX FASCIATUS MEXICANUS; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EYE; FISHES; MORPHOGENESIS; RETINA;

EID: 84922572743     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.114629     Document Type: Article

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