Richard Borowsky, matchmaker to blind cavefish

A Clear Voices for Science Podcast 5 February 08
Listen or download (to the right) to hear this 4-minute presentation. Comment Download
  • Help Print Me

    • Blind Mexican Tetras (Astyanax mexicanus) from Pachon cave in NE Mexico. (Credit: Richard Borowsky)

    This is an Earth & Sky Clear Voices Podcast.

    Richard Borowsky is an evolutionary biologist at New York University. He conducted a study that mated different populations of blind cavefish from Mexico. Their offspring overcame a million years of blindness to regain vision.

    Related:

    Blind cavefish given gift of sight

    Our thanks to:

    Richard Borowsky
    Professor of Biology
    New York University
    New York, NY

    Written by Lindsay Patterson

    NEW! Find related content with Sphere

    © 1996-2008 EarthSky Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

    Design © 2006-2008 lucid crew | austin web design.