nearly 100 percent left-eyed off the Japanese coast.获得更多gre考试咨询点击进入免费咨询顾问或联系QQ客服:800004500
Biologists call this kind of gradual variation over a certain
geographic rang a cline and interpret clines as strong
indications that the variation is adaptive, a
20 response to environmental differences. For the
starry flounder this interpretation implies that a
geometric difference is adaptive, that left-eyedness
in the Japanese starry flounder has been selected for, which provokes a
25 perplexing questions: what is the selective advantage in
having both eyes on one side rather than on the other?
The ease with which a fish can reverse the effect of the sidedness
of its eye asymmetry simply by turning
around has caused biologists to study internal anatomy,
30 especially the optic nerves, for the answer. In all flatfish
the optic nerves cross, so that the right optic nerve is joined
to the brains left side and vice versa. This crossing introduces
an asymmetry, as one optic nerve must
cross above or below the other. G. H. Parker
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