#NewSpecies!
New cave fish from #oman just swam in:
Garra cavernicola
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BBC80B-FFE7-FFE5-FF55-FB8AFE75BDA5
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5601.2.7
#Zootaxa #GarraCavernicola
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishfriday #ichthyology #caves #cavefish #freshwater
#NewSpecies!
New cavefish from #china just swam in:
Claea scet
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DD63F2B6-96CD-5C12-BA14-55760FACDCB5
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.146469
#Zoosyst_Evo #ClaeaScet
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishofmastodon #fishfriday #ichthyology #caves #cavefish #loach
#CaveFish Adolescence Means Sprouting Taste Buds in Weird Places
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cave-fish-adolescence-means-sprouting-taste-buds-in-weird-places/
The spatiotemporal and genetic architecture of extraoral taste buds in #Astyanax cavefish https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06635-2
"In eastern #Mexico’s underground caverns, a blind #fish undergoes a peculiar adolescence: as it approaches maturity, #TasteBuds begin to sprout under its chin and on top of its head, creeping toward its back... they might be helping the fish detect bat droppings in the utterly dark #caves"
Blind #cavefish have extraordinary #taste buds that increase with age, research reveals.
#olfaction #sensing #genomics #Astyanax
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-cavefish-extraordinary-buds-age-reveals.html
#NewSpecies!
New cave fish from #china just swam in:
Karstsinnectes cehengensis
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0A6AE154-540B-E60D-7BE6-F8101B950DE7
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11865/zs.2024204
#ZoologicalSystematics #KarstsinnectesCehengensis
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishofmastodon #fishfriday #ichthyology #cavefish #cavespecies #caves
#NewSpecies!
New cavefish from #china just swam in:
Sinocyclocheilus guiyang
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/67337E27-2D91-4C21-B557-AA36ECABDAA1
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/zse.100.119520
#Zoosyst_Evo #SinocyclocheilusGuiyang
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishofmastodon #fishfriday #ichthyology #cavefish #caves #cavebiology
ICB
Trait Loss in #Evolution: What #Cavefish Have Taught Us about Mechanisms Underlying Eye Regression
by Sifuentes-Romero, Aviles et al
"Reduction or complete loss of traits is a common occurrence throughout evolutionary history..."
Meet #Neolissochilus pnar, World’s Largest Cavefish https://www.sci.news/biology/neolissochilus-pnar-11638.html
The world’s largest #cave #fish from #Meghalaya, Northeast #India, is a new species, Neolissochilus pnar (#Cyprinidae, Torinae) https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/101011/
Stories of a white #cavefish from Meghalaya have been documented for 100 years. Only in the 1990s, a large, pale, cyprinid fish was observed, individuals of which were eventually photographed and collected in 2019, and made available for detailed scientific studies.
Scientists use #cavefish to learn more about #metabolism and the #evolutionary basis of being a couch potato.
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-scientists-cavefish-metabolism-evolutionary-basis.html
"Stay-at-home orders issued at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic ushered the hoarding of food and surges in digital entertainment subscriptions, restaurant take-out and delivery services—a perfect storm for a collective #CouchPotato phenomenon. Now, researchers have discovered what prolonged physical inactivity may mean for humans many thousands of years down the road by studying #cavefish.
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-scientists-cavefish-metabolism-evolutionary-basis.html
...and it's not just for zebrafish - enter #cavefish!
Sylvain Bertho in
@NicolasRohner's lab used exorh-based Tol2 backbones in #Astyanax:
both surface fish and eye-less cavefish express the reporter - hello new transgenesis marker!
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New preprint w/ friends on new plasmids for #zebrafish transgenesis (& #cavefish, & more!) 🐟🧬
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.13.520107v1
A multi-year collab w/
@aburger2009 @kwantourage @TheLovelyLab @NicolasRohner & Affolter lab, led by Cassie Kemmler & @hannah_moran, et al.
Summary🧵1/n
