Scientists use #cavefish to learn more about #metabolism and the #evolutionary basis of being a couch potato.

#metabolomics

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

RT @FishInTheNews@twitter.com

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑢𝑠 (Cypriniformes, #Cyprinidae), a new species of #microphthalmic #hypogean fish from Guizhou, Southwest China. #CaveFish #CaveFishes
🔓 https://bit.ly/3wcWLL2

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FishInTheNews/status/1615497438692777985

RT @FishInTheNews
#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑢𝑠 (Cypriniformes, #Cyprinidae), a new species of #microphthalmic #hypogean fish from Guizhou, Southwest China. #CaveFish #CaveFishes
🔓 https://bit.ly/3wcWLL2

...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!

#collaborate #TeamFish

12/n

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

RT @chrmosimann@twitter.com

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@twitter.com @kwantourage@twitter.com @TheLovelyLab@twitter.com @NicolasRohner@twitter.com & Affolter lab, led by Cassie Kemmler & @hannah_moran@twitter.com, et al.

Summary🧵1/n

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/chrmosimann/status/1603432463346245635

Selection-driven trait loss in independently evolved cavefish populations.
Looks like a really neat paper. Not sure if any of the authors are on here, but congrats!
#adaptation #CaveFish #convergence

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.28.518185v1

Referenced link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-cavefish-humans-evolution-metabolism-insight.html
Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com@twitter.com: https://twitter.com/medical_xpress/status/1524766386597339137#m

RT by @physorg_com: From #cavefish to humans: Evolution of #metabolism in cavefish may provide insight into treatments for a host of diseases @NatureGenet https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-cavefish-humans-evolution-metabolism-insight.html