Cave fishes

Menaker One of the best organisms to work on from this perspective is the blind cave fish. There are some that live in deep caves and never come out, but there is a lot of work on the evolution of the blind cave fish and fish with intermediate kinds of environments. 

Jeffrey, William R. and David P. Martasian. Evolution and Eye Regression in Cave Fish. American Zoologist, Sep 1998, Vol. 38 Issue 4,685. 

T. L. Poulson. Adaptations of cave fishes with some comparisons to deep sea fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 62 (2001), 345-64. 

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Cardwell, J.R. Stacey, N.E. 1995. Olfactory sensitivity to sex pheromones in blind cave fish In Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on the Reproductive Physiology of Fish (Ed. by F.W. Goetz P. Thomas ), p 272. Austin TX Fish Symposium 95. 

Boudriot, F. Reutter, K. (1997). Ultrastructure of the taste buds in the blind cave fish Astyanaxjordani ( Anoptich-thys ) and its sighted relative Astyanax mexicanus (Teleostei). Chem. Senses 23 (1998 in press). 

Fiber and particulate residues, archaeological textiles by infrared techniques, 44-77 Fiber charring, 49-50 Fiber dyeing, 51 Fiber mineralization, 51 Field analysis by XRF, obsidian sources in Central Pet6n, Guatemala, 506-521 Fish Slough Cave, Owen s Valley, California, population movement studies, 80... 

Higher forms of animals, such as fish, amphibians and higher forms of bark-beetles can be found only In caves. However, they are very rare. Other typical inhabitants of caves are rather small animals (some of them are shown in Fig. 4.24). 

Mandarino JA, Sturman BD, Corlett MI (1978) Satterlyite, a new hydroxyl-bearing ferrous phosphate from the Big Fish area, Yukon Territory. Can Mineral 16 411-413 Martini JEJ (1978) Sasaite, a new phosphate mineral from West Driefontein Cave, Transvaal, South Africa. Mineral Mag 42 401-404... 

Various types of radioactive tagging procedures have been developed for studying bats. Punt and van Nieuwenhoven (1957), in an attempt to locate bats in caves in The Netherlands, utilized a numbered aluminum band with one end lengthened and folded over a rod of Sb (half-life 60.3 days) C. E. Gifford and Griffin (1960) evaporated a solution of in the fold of a metal band used to locate bats in caves Cope et al. (1961) evaporated a solution of Au placed on the inner surface of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service numbered aluminum bands and used these bands to locate bats in rafters and brick walls Davis et al, (1968) used a Co wire injected beneath the skin of the forearms of bats in their study of colonial behavior. 

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