Finished projects

The service of performing field work for the TTP Evolution in the Dark project

How organisms adapt to the environment and generate novel phenotypes are fundamental questions in biology. For this reason, the project Evolution in the Dark was started in 2019 at the Ruđer Bošković Institute. Objective of the project was to establish an independent research group and lab to explore the effect of the environment and investigate the molecular origin of a major evolutionary adaptation.

For the research, the group has animal facilities for maintenance and breeding of research organisms adapted to caves: teleost fish Astyanax mexicanus and various subterranean invertebrates such as cave planaria, cave mollusks and cave arthropods, alongside with their surface relatives.

From the begining of the project, CBSS is hired as an expert associate for determination of distribution data of target cave species, planing and performing field work, and habitat characterization for target species.

The project ended in May 2024.