Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy

This study shows cavefish use similar sensory modalities to surface fish for food searching but with higher adherence to stimuli and an extended circling strategy.

The paper identifies copy number variants associated with cave adaptation in Mexican tetra by comparing surface and cave populations.

The paper presents a chromosome-scale reference genome for the Andean cavefish Trichomycterus rosablanca to study evolutionary mechanisms in cave environments.

This study compares mitochondrial genomes of surface and subterranean amphipods to identify molecular differences in energy metabolism linked to their habitats.

This study uses 3D spheroid culturing to model metabolic and transcriptomic states of Astyanax mexicanus liver cells, revealing cave-specific metabolic signatures.

This study investigates light avoidance behavior in cave fish through a common garden experiment, finding a heritable basis linked to increased boldness rather than reduced vision.

This study uses molecular data to determine the colonization history of two Tethysbaena species in the Levant, finding a two-stage transgression pattern rather than previously proposed hypotheses.

This study examines how olfactory sensitivity, preferences, and behavioral responses evolve in Mexican cavefish and surface fish, revealing individual personality differences and genetic influences on olfactory traits.

This study identifies habitat-related transcriptional differences in skin traits of Sinocyclocheilus cavefish using comparative transcriptomics and RNA-seq.

The paper maps structural brain evolution to anatomical modules by analyzing volume and shape variability in cavefish and hybrids.

This study examines the effects of a mutation in the MAO gene of Mexican cavefish, revealing its impact on monoamine neurotransmitter homeostasis and differences between brain regions.

The paper shows that Mexican cavefish maintain functional connectivity in the tectum despite losing retinal input, with changes in the tectum being genetically distinct from eye loss.

The paper investigates how neural mechanisms in the lateral line system of cavefish evolve, finding that blind cavefish have lower response thresholds and persistent afferent activity during locomotion due to efferent system regression.

CaveCrawler integrates genomic and transcriptional data from Astyanax mexicanus to compare gene expression and selection markers between surface and cave populations.

This study uses metabolomics to compare long- and short-term fasting responses in cave-dwelling and surface-dwelling Mexican tetra, identifying metabolic differences linked to resilience and longevity.

This study shows cavefish adapt to hypoxia by increasing erythrocyte production and constitutively overexpressing hypoxia-inducible genes.

The paper presents a chromosome-level genome of surface fish Astyanax mexicanus and uses it to identify genetic factors contributing to trait evolution in cavefish populations.

The paper investigates the genetic basis of eye development and reduction in arachnids, identifying duplicated RDGN homologs and showing that soA is necessary for eye development across arachnid species.

The paper examines how the absence of visual input affects the morphology of Mauthner cell dendrites in Astyanax blind cavefish and surface fish across developmental and evolutionary timescales.

The paper generates brain atlases of surface and cavefish to identify convergent neuroanatomical and functional changes associated with behavioral evolution.

The paper compares the C-start escape response in Mexican cavefish and surface fish, finding evolved differences in response probability and kinematics across populations.

The paper analyzes stress responses in Astyanax larvae, finding reduced stress measures and increased glucocorticoid receptor expression in some cave populations.

This study identifies a mutation in the cbsa gene as a contributor to eye loss in cavefish by disrupting optic vasculature and causing hypoxia.

The paper investigates the roles of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and lens in cavefish eye degeneration by generating an albino-eyed strain and analyzing its developmental traits.

The paper investigates the effect of a MAO mutation on stress behavior in cavefish, finding it influences anxiety but not previously hypothesized traits.

The paper sequenced embryonic transcriptomes of cave, surface, and hybrid Asellus aquaticus to identify differentially expressed genes and allele-specific expression in hybrids, aiding in understanding genetic divergence between cave and surface forms.

The paper generates a brain atlas of surface fish and three cavefish populations, revealing convergent neuroanatomical changes associated with evolved behavioral traits.