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Volume 48 Issue 8, August 2019

Figuring out fishy phenotypes

Recognize those silhouettes? On the cover this month you’ll find three perhaps less familiar fishes: a cave-dwelling Mexican tetra, an Antarctic icefish, and an Atlantic killifish. Each has adapted to unique environments and developed unique phenotypes along the way that suit the fishes just fine but if found in people could be called pathological. The researchers working with these far-flung fishes think understanding their phenotypes could yield new insight into human health and disease.

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Cover design: Erin Dewalt

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  • There are animals out there with unique phenotypes that could yield insight into human health and disease. Meet three such fishes from waters around the world: Antarctic icefish, Mexican cavefish, and Atlantic killfish.

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