'biologists have found it far easier to study the evolutionary loss of traits—the disappearance of legs in snakes or the loss of pigment in cavefish—than the acquisition of new ones. So sea robins seemed like they might present a rare opportunity to look at the emergence of a specific novelty' 🐡🧪'biologists have found it far easier to study the evolutionary loss of traits—the disappearance of legs in snakes or the loss of pigment in cavefish—than the acquisition of new ones. So sea robins seemed like they might present a rare opportunity to look at the emergence of a specific novelty' 🐡🧪

These Bizarre Fish Walk on Six Legs and Taste the Location of Buried Prey

A species of legged fish uses taste receptors to search for hidden prey, providing an ideal window for scientists to study the emergence of new evolutionary traits

Head Horn Enhances Hydrodynamic Perception in Eyeless Cavefish

Caves as species pumps: key innovations, isolation, and periodic introgression drive the world's largest cavefish radiation in a dynamic karstic landscape http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.09.12.612638v1

Caves as species pumps: key innovations, isolation, and periodic introgression drive the world's largest cavefish radiation in a dynamic karstic landscape www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.12.612638v1

Caves as species pumps: key innovations, isolation, and periodic introgression drive the world's largest cavefish radiation in a dynamic karstic landscape https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.12.612638v1

Species diversification is shaped by intricate interactions among biotic drivers, including gene flo

Blind Cavefish Evolved to Have More External Taste BudsScience Connected MagazineMore infoEcoSearch

@PDChina: The golden-line barbel, an endangered cavefish that originally lived in Dianchi Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China's Yunnan, has been "reborn" in the lake basin after disappearing 4 decades ago, thanks to scientists' efforts and the improvement of ecological environment. https://t.

Blind cavefish have extraordinary taste buds www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Cavefish increase the number and location of taste buds -- to the head and chin

Blind cavefish have extraordinary taste buds

A biologist studies blind cavefish, a species of fish that dwell in cave ponds in Mexico. He looked at the timeline for when the cavefish develop additional taste buds on the head and chin, finding th...

Come to my fun talk about a ‘hip’ cavefish and friends - and how their morphology is convergent with the precursors to the earliest tetrapods #Evol2024 sessions Adaptation X (Monday, today) at 11:30 room 516a

Evolution of a central dopamine circuit underlies adaptation of light-evoked sensorimotor response in the blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.25.605141v1

Evolution of a central dopamine circuit underlies adaptation of light-evoked sensorimotor response in the blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.25.605141v1

Adaptive behaviors emerge in novel environments through functional changes in neural circuits. While

Evolution of a central dopamine circuit underlies adaptation of light-evoked sensorimotor response in the blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.25.605141v1

Evolution of a central dopamine circuit underlies adaptation of light-evoked sensorimotor response in the blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.25.605141v1

Adaptive behaviors emerge in novel environments through functional changes in neural circuits. While