The healthy diabetic cavefish conundrum

Sylvie Rétaux ()

Nature, 2018, vol. 555, issue 7698, 595-597

Abstract: Some Mexican cavefish have a mutation in an insulin receptor protein that affects blood-glucose regulation. The same mutation causes diabetes and health problems in humans, but the diabetic cavefish thrive.

Keywords: Diabetes; Evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-018-03242-0

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