Robert A. Kozol

The paper investigates how a central dopamine circuit evolves in blind cavefish to adapt light-evoked sensorimotor responses, revealing its role in behavioral adaptation through functional and genetic analysis.

The paper investigates DNA damage and cellular stress in short-sleeping Mexican cavefish, finding elevated DNA damage markers and reduced DNA repair responses compared to surface fish.

This study investigates how odor perception evolves in cavefish, showing a shift from avoidance to attraction of alarm and death odors, with genetic and neural mechanisms involved.

This study generates zebrafish models of SYNGAP1 disorder and shows that syngap1ab mutants exhibit context-dependent hyperactivity linked to altered arousal states.

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

The paper shows motor asymmetry in larval teleosts is conserved across species and driven by thalamic neurons, with forms dependent on vision and independent of it.