Evolution in the dark : Darwin's loss without selection

• Main Author: Wilkens, Horst.
• Other Authors: Strecker, Ulrike.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin : Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Evolution (Biology); elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783662545126; 9783662545102
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book provides fascinating insights into the development and genetics of evolutionary processes on the basis of animals living in the dark, such as the Astyanax cave fish. Biologically functionless traits show high variability, which results from neutral deleterious mutations no longer being eli...