ArticleJournal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution2020
Dark world rises: The emergence of cavefish as a model for the study of evolution, development, behavior, and disease.
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- A comparative brain atlas in the Mexican cavefish identifies widespread changes in cellular composition and gene expression.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Widespread loss of sleep in independently evolved populations of wild-caught cavefish.iScience · 2025Article
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- Postprandial Sleep in Short-Sleeping Mexican Cavefish.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2024Article
- Astyanax mexicanus surface and cavefish chromosome-scale assemblies for trait variation discovery.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Postprandial sleep in short-sleeping Mexican cavefish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- A practical guide for the husbandry of cave and surface invertebrates as the first step in establishing new model organisms.PloS one · 2024Article
- Unravelling the origins of boldness behaviour: a common garden experiment with cavefish (Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Astyanax mexicanus surface and cavefish chromosome-scale assemblies for trait variation discovery.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Discovery of putative long non-coding RNAs expressed in the eyes of Astyanax mexicanus (Actinopterygii: Characidae).Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Next-generation plasmids for transgenesis in zebrafish and beyond.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Novel Husbandry Practices Result in Rapid Rates of Growth and Sexual Maturation Without Impacting Adult Behavior in the Blind Mexican Cavefish.Zebrafish · 2023Article
- Natural selection versus neutral mutation in the evolution of subterranean life: A false dichotomy?Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURES) as a pathway to diversify science.Evolution & development · 2022Article
- Characterizing the genetic basis of trait evolution in the Mexican cavefish.Evolution & development · 2022Article
- CaveCrawler: an interactive analysis suite for cavefish bioinformatics.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
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- Cultivable Skin Mycobiota of Healthy and Diseased Blind Cave Salamander (Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
A central question in biology is how naturally occurring genetic variation accounts for morphological and behavioral diversity within a species. The Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus, has been studied for nearly a century as a model for investigating trait evolution. In March of 2019, researchers representing laboratories from around the world met at the Sixth Astyanax International Meeting in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. The meeting highlighted the expanding applications of cavefish to investigations of diverse aspects of basic biology, including development, evolution, and disease-based applications. A broad range of integrative approaches are being applied in this system, including the application of state-of-the-art functional genetic assays, brain imaging, and genome sequencing. These advances position cavefish as a model organism for addressing fundamental questions about the genetics and evolution underlying the impressive trait diversity among individual populations within this species.
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