Foundation items:This work was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDPB17 to L.M.);Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(2019HJ2096001006 to J.X.Y.);Frontier Interdiscipline Project of Tsinghua University(20221080082 to M.Z.X.)。
The karst habitats of Southwest China contain the richest cavefish fauna in the world.However,many Chinese cavefish species are now at high risk of extinction.Chinese cavefish have evolved unusual traits,which are imp...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070438)。
The stress response is essential for animal self-defense and survival. However, species may exhibit stress response variation depending on their specific environmental and selection pressures. Blind cavefish dwell in ...
supported by the Guizhou Province Top Discipline Construction Program Project(Qianjiao Keyan Fa(2019)125);Strategic Priority Research Program B of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(XDB31000000);Guizhou Normal University Academic Emerging Talent Fund Project(Qianshi Xin Miao[2021]20);National Animal Collection Resource Center,China。
DEAR EDITOR,Cave loaches within the family Nemacheilidae are among the most diverse group of cavefish in southwestern China.Although certain species have been included in previous phylogenetic studies,the intergeneric...
supported by Marist College and its School of Science(to L.E.),an ANR grant(BLINDTEST),an FRM grant(Equipe FRM)(to S.R.),and a collaborative exchange program(Ecos-Nord)to S.R.and Patricia Ornelas-Garcia。
DEAR EDITOR,The characiform fish Astyanax is a well-studied model system for understanding evolutionary development and genomics in cave biology.Nonetheless,considerable gaps remain in our understanding of its field e...
supported by a CNRS MITI (Mission pour les Initiatives Transverses et Interdisciplinaires) grant “Expérimentation en Milieux Extrêmes” to S.R.;collaborative grants from Agence Nationale de la Recherche (BLINDTEST);Institut Diversité Ecologie et Evolution du Vivant to S.R. and D.C
The sizes of Astyanax mexicanus blind cavefish populations of North-East Mexico are demographic parameters of great importance for investigating a variety of ecological,evolutionary,and conservation issues.However,few...
supported by the Project No.191986,Fronteras de la Ciencia-CONACyT;Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica(PAPIIT),UNAM No.IN212419。
Cave-adapted animals provide a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary mechanisms underlying phenotypic,metabolic,behavioral,and genetic evolution in response to cave environments.The Mexican tetra(Astyanax mexic...
supported by institutional funding from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research,NIH Grant 1DP2AG071466-01,NIH Grant R01 GM127872,NSF IOS-1933428;NSF EDGE Award 1923372。
Dear Editor,Physical injury and tissue damage are prevalent throughout the animal kingdom,with the ability to regenerate quickly and efficiently providing a selective advantage.In most vertebrates,skeletal muscle poss...
supported by the Key R&D Project of Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Department(2020BBB076);Talent Project of Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department(2020RC3057);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32060128)。
DEAR EDITOR,Cavefish are of considerable interest due to the remarkable morphological changes that occurred during their adaptation to cave or subterranean river habitats.These changes are thought to involve trade-off...
supported by the Project No. 191986,Fronteras de la Ciencia–CONACyT;the Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica (PAPIIT),UNAM No.IN212419
Astyanax mexicanus has repeatedly colonized cave environments,displaying evolutionary parallelisms in many troglobitic traits.Despite being a model system for the study of adaptation to life in perpetual darkness,the ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32260310,31560111);Top Young Talents Program of the Ten-Thousand Plan of Yunnan Province(YNWR-QNBJ-2018-024);Scientific Research Fund of Yunnan Provincial Education Department,China(2020Y0014)。
Intestinal microbes are closely related to vital host functions such as digestion and nutrient absorption,which play important roles in enhancing host adaptability.As a natural“laboratory”,caves provide an outstandi...