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#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"

Cave Fish Adolescence Means Sprouting Taste Buds in Weird Places

Cave fish develop taste buds on their head and below their chin—and even in humans, taste cells grow in truly unexpected locations

Scientific American
Blind cavefish have extraordinary taste buds that increase with age, research reveals

Over thousands of years, cavefish evolved and lost their vision, earning the moniker "the blind cavefish," but some cavefish also developed an inordinate number of taste buds on the head and chin.

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...and it's not just for zebrafish - enter #cavefish!

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@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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