Contrasted gene decay in subterranean vertebrates: insights from cavefishes and fossorial mammals
M. Policarpo, J. Fumey, P. Lafargeas, D. Naquin, C. Thermes, M. Naville, C. Dechaud, J.-N. Volff, C. Cabau, C. Klopp, P. Rask Moller, L. Bernatchez, E. Garcia-Machado, S. Retaux, D. Casane
This study compares gene decay in cavefishes and fossorial mammals, finding that eye gene decay is recent in cavefishes but ancient in mammals.
bioRxiv · Mar 5, 2020Evolutionary Biology