Cavefish as biological models in the laboratory and in the wild

作     者：William R.Jeffery Li Ma Ya-hui Zhao William R.Jeffery;Li Ma;Ya-hui Zhao

作者机构：Department of BiologyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMD20742 USA Cave Fish Development and Evolution Research GroupKunming Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesKunmingYunnan650223China Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100101China 

出 版 物：《Zoological Research》 (动物学研究（英文）)

年 卷 期：2023年第44卷第4期

页      面：834-836页

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学科分类：07[理学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

主　　题：species fish traits 

摘      要：Cavefish have advanced to the forefront as excellent models for laboratory studies in developmental and evolutionary *** iconic Mexican characid,Astyanax mexicanus,which consists of a surface-dwelling morph and about 30 interfertile cave-dwelling morphs,has become a major contributor to behavior,sensory biology,trait evolution,and biomedicine(Jeffery,2020).There are about 200 scientifically-described cavefish species distributed in karst areas on most continents(Proudlove,2015).Similar to ***,a small subset of other cavefish taxa coupled with related surface-dwelling species are now serving as additional laboratory models to address a variety of important biological problems.A prime example is the cyprinid genus Sinocycloceilus,which contains 75 closely related surface and cave species endemic to the karst massifs of southwestern China(Jiang et al.,2019,2023;Ma et al.,2019).Comparative studies of Chinese and Mexican cavefish can be used to address a host of questions concerning the convergence and divergence of cave related *** the future,other Chinese cavefish species,such as the cave loach,as well as the more recently discovered European cavefishes,are likely to join the current group of excellent laboratory *** special issue of Zoological Research presents the results of current research on these diverse cavefish *** addition to recent research using cavefish models in laboratory studies,this issue also covers new research on cavefish in the wild.