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SUBMITTER: Borowsky R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3833966 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Borowsky Richard R Cohen Dana D
PloS one 20131119 11
The cave environment is consistently radically different than the surface environment because it lacks light, and animals adapting to cave life are subject to strong selective forces much different than those experienced by their ancestors who evolved in the presence of light. As such, their divergence from surface ancestors and eventual speciation is likely to be driven by the shift in ecology. We report here that hybrids between cave and surface Astyanax mexicanus fishes produce offspring with ...[more]