#astyanax — Public Fediverse posts
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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"
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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