Adaptation and Pleiotropy
amblyopsis
Amblyopsis Spelaea
astyanax
Astyanax Fasciatus
Astyanax Mexicanus
Biodiversity and Distribution of the Subterranean Fishes of the World
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Catfi Shes
cave
Cave Amblyopsids
Cave Animals
Cave Populations
cavefi
Cavefi Sh
Cavefish: Retrospective and Prospective
conservation genetics
Conspecifi Cs
Crayfi Sh
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evolutionary biology
fasciatus
Fi Shes
Gene Fl Ow
genetic adaptation
habitats
High Food Supplies
Life History
Locomotor Activity
molecular mechanisms of cave adaptation
Neural Crest
phenotypic loss
Poecilia Mexicana
population
species
spelaea
Speoplatyrhinus Poulsoni
stygobiology
Subterranean Fi Shes
Subterranean Fishes of India
Subterranean Fishes of North America: Amblyopsidae
Subterranean Habitats
Surface Fi Sh
Swampfi Sh
The Evolutionary Genetics of Cave Fishes: Convergence
troglobitic
Troglobitic Amblyopsids
Troglobitic Fi Shes
Troglobitic Species
vertebrate evolution
Product details
- ISBN 9781578086702
- Weight: 816g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 May 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In most habitats, adaptations are the single most obvious aspects of an organism’s phenotype. However, the most obvious feature of many subterranean animals are losses, not adaptations. Even Darwin saw subterranean animals as degenerates: examples of eyelessness and loss of structure in general. For him, the explanation was a straightforward Lamarckian one, and one that did not involve adaptation and the struggle of existence. This volume is a comprehensive account of all known species of subterranean fishes. It includes an extensive introduction, history of investigations, consideration of non-stygobitic fishes in caves, and detailed analysis of the conservation status of these very rare animals.
Eleonora Trajano, Maria Elina Bichuette, B.G. Kapoor
