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Alexandra L. Merry

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivJun 9, 2016

Strong Selection is Necessary for Evolution of Blindness in Cave Dwellers

Reed A. Cartwright, Rachel S Schwartz, Alexandra L. Merry, Megan M. Howell

This study models the evolution of blindness in cave-dwellers and finds that strong selection is needed for blindness to evolve despite immigration of sightedness alleles from surface populations.

DOI 10.1186/s12862-017-0876-4

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