An epigenetic mechanism for cavefish eye degeneration
A. Gore, K. Tomins, J. Iben, L. Ma, D. Castranova, A. Davis, A. Parkhurst, W. Jeffery, B. Weinstein
The paper identifies DNA methylation-based epigenetic silencing as a mechanism causing eye degeneration in blind cavefish and links these genes to human eye disorders.
bioRxiv · Oct 5, 2017Evolutionary Biology