ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
The origin of blinking in both mudskippers and tetrapods is linked to life on land.
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- The origin of blinking in both mudskippers and tetrapods is linked to life on land.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Fish on dry land hint at why we blink.Nature · 2023Article
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Abstract
Blinking, the transient occlusion of the eye by one or more membranes, serves several functions including wetting, protecting, and cleaning the eye. This behavior is seen in nearly all living tetrapods and absent in other extant sarcopterygian lineages suggesting that it might have arisen during the water-to-land transition. Unfortunately, our understanding of the origin of blinking has been limited by a lack of known anatomical correlates of the behavior in the fossil record and a paucity of comparative functional studies. To understand how and why blinking originates, we leverage mudskippers (Oxudercinae), a clade of amphibious fishes that have convergently evolved blinking. Using microcomputed tomography and histology, we analyzed two mudskipper species,
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