… high infectivity) provided subterranean mammals with shelter from extreme climatic (temperature
and humidity) fluctuations and predators. All subterranean mammals share convergent …

… context of the highly stressful subterranean context, consider the … subterranean mammals.
The extraordinary circumstances surrounding subterranean mammals present a unique, global…

… evolution of subterranean mammals involves adaptive structural and functional progression
and regression. It is one of the most dramatic examples of global convergent evolution due …

… Given the limited indication that positive selection and convergence occurred in the same
loci, we conclude that selection may have acted on different loci across subterranean mammal …

… led subterranean species to evolve specialized traits, many of which evolved convergently.
We studied convergence in evolutionary rate in subterranean mammals … in the subterranean …

3. Results The current map and list of these 28 sites of high subterranean biodiversity (Figure
1, Table 1) represent nearly all of the sites known to contain 25 or more stygobionts and …

… The public release of three subterranean mammal genomes provides an opportunity to
address questions relating to regression of the visual system by evaluating the patterns of …

… Here I report that vision gene loss in subterranean mammals tends to be more extensive in
… dim light-adapted mammals, although some committed subterranean mammals demonstrate …

… Although they are distributed in different geographical areas, the similar subterranean
environment will lead to the convergent morphological, physiological (low basal metabolic rate, …

… Whereas most mammals use their claws for digging, rodents are unique in that … subterranean
species having become chisel-tooth diggers. Here, we review examples of convergence …