<p>Perihan Sadoglu was one of the first scientists to study cavefish genetics. Today scientists are building upon her work and others to better understand the fish's curious characteristics.</p>

Perihan Sadoglu was one of the first scientists to study cavefish genetics. Today scientists are building upon her work and others to better understand the fish's curious characteristics.

Cavefish Genetics

Understanding how the same fish could look so different is a question that scientists have been investigating since the discovery of the blind Mexican cavefish, Astyanax Mexicanus in the 1930’s. The cave fish, pale pink without eyes, lives in underground caves below its surface cousin which is silvery gray with black eyes. Today Astyanax is a model to study genetics, disease and behavior.

The story includes jungle explorers braving plane crashes and venomous snakes to find the cavefish and the scientists who studied it including a renowned German professor who fled Nazi Germany and a female Turkish scientist, Perihan Sadoglu who did some of the first genetic work in the 1950’s, but who mysteriously disappeared mid-career. The podcast follows the stories of scientists past and present revealing clues along the way to find out what had happened to Dr. Sadoglu and why it matters now.

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Understanding how the same fish could look so different is a question that scientists have been investigating since the discovery of the blind Mexican cavefish, Astyanax Mexicanus in the 1930’s. The cave fish, pale pink without eyes, lives in underground caves below its surface cousin which is silvery gray with black eyes. Today Astyanax is a model to study genetics, disease and behavior. The story includes jungle explorers braving plane crashes and venomous snakes to find the cavefish and the scientists who studied it including a renowned German professor who fled Nazi Germany and a female Turkish scientist, Perihan Sadoglu who did some of the first genetic work in the 1950’s, but who mysteriously disappeared mid-career. The podcast follows the stories of scientists past and present revealing clues along the way to find out what had happened to Dr. Sadoglu and why it matters now.

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Cavefish Genetics

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