ReviewMolecular reproduction and development2015
Behaviors of cavefish offer insight into developmental evolution.
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- Exploring Astyanax mexicanus as a model for unraveling genotype-environment interactions and metabolic adaptations.Lab animal · 2026Review
- Loss of Conserved Noncoding Elements Likely Shaped the Evolution of Regressed Phenotypes in Cavefish.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Mechanisms of social behaviour in the anti-social blind cavefish (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Postprandial Sleep in Short-Sleeping Mexican Cavefish.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2024Article
- Postprandial sleep in short-sleeping Mexican cavefish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Wall-following - Phylogenetic context of an enhanced behaviour in stygomorphicEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Unravelling the origins of boldness behaviour: a common garden experiment with cavefish (Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Metabolic shift toward ketosis in asocial cavefish increases social-like affinity.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Loss of behavioral stress response in blind cavefish reduces energy expenditure.Zoological research · 2023Article
- Evolution of left-right asymmetry in the sensory system and foraging behavior during adaptation to food-sparse cave environments.BMC biology · 2022Article
- Sensory evolution in a cavefish radiation: patterns of neuromast distribution and associated behaviour inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Characterizing the genetic basis of trait evolution in the Mexican cavefish.Evolution & development · 2022Article
- Kinematic analysis of social interactions deconstructs the evolved loss of schooling behavior in cavefish.PloS one · 2022Article
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- Evolution in Sinocyclocheilus cavefish is marked by rate shifts, reversals, and origin of novel traits.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Dual roles of the retinal pigment epithelium and lens in cavefish eye degeneration.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2020Article
- Unique transcriptional signatures of sleep loss across independently evolved cavefish populations.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2020Article
- Cavefish brain atlases reveal functional and anatomical convergence across independently evolved populations.Science advances · 2020Article
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Abstract
Many developmental processes have evolved through natural selection, yet in only a few cases do we understand if and how a change of developmental process produces a benefit. For example, many studies in evolutionary biology have investigated the developmental mechanisms that lead to novel structures in an animal, but only a few have addressed if these structures actually benefit the animal at the behavioral level of prey hunting and mating. As such, this review discusses an animal's behavior as the integrated functional output of its evolved morphological and physiological traits. Specifically, we focus on recent findings about the blind Mexican cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus, for which clear relationships exist between its physical traits and ecosystem. This species includes two morphotypes: an eyed surface dweller versus many conspecific types of blind cave dwellers, some of which evolved independently; all of the blind subtypes derived from eyed surface dwellers. The blind cavefish evolved under clear selection pressures: food is sparse and darkness is perpetual. Simulating the major aspects of a cave ecosystem in the laboratory is relatively easy, so we can use this species to begin resolving the relationships between evolved traits and selection pressures-relationships which are more complex for other animals models. This review discusses the recent advances in cavefish research that have helped us establish some key relationships between morphological evolution and environmental shifts.
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