Genomic evidence that blind cavefishes are not wrecks of ancient life
M. Policarpo, P. Laurenti, E. Garcia-Machado, C. Metcalfe, S. Retaux, D. Casane
The paper estimates the age of blindness in cavefishes by analyzing decay in eye-specific genes, finding that blindness is relatively recent, ranging from the Early Pliocene to Late Pleistocene.
bioRxiv · Jun 2, 2021 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology