Professor of Biology
Ph.D. 1969 (biology), M.Phil. 1967 (biology), Yale; B.A. 1964 (biology), Queens College.

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Personal Homepage: http://pages.nyu.edu/~rb4/

Research Interests:

The evolution and genetics of cave fish with an emphasis on understanding the molecular and developmental bases of adaptation and the "eyeless" condition.

Affiliations:

American Society of Human Genetics; Genetics Society of America; Society for the Study of Evolution; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; American Society of Naturalists; National Speleological Society; Sociedad Mexicana de Exploraciones Subterraneas (SMES); Fellow, The Explorers Club.

Fellowships/Honors:

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship; SFB Fellow, Theodor Boveri Institute, Würzburg, 1994.

Publications

• Multi-trait evolution in a cave fish, Astyanax mexicanus.
  Evol Dev
  Protas M, Tabansky I, Conrad M, Gross JB, Vidal O, Tabin CJ, Borowsky R
  
  
• Construction of bacterial artificial chromosome libraries for the Lake Malawi cichlid (Metriaclima zebra), and the blind cavefish (Astyanax mexicanus).
  Zebrafish
  Di Palma F, Kidd C, Borowsky R, Kocher TD
  
  
• Regressive evolution in the Mexican cave tetra, Astyanax mexicanus.
  Curr Biol
  Protas M, Conrad M, Gross JB, Tabin C, Borowsky R
  
  
• Genetic analysis of cavefish reveals molecular convergence in the evolution of albinism.
  Nat Genet
  Protas ME, Hersey C, Kochanek D, Zhou Y, Wilkens H, Jeffery WR, Zon LI, Borowsky R, Tabin CJ
  
  
• Mapping a cave fish genome: polygenic systems and regressive evolution.
  J Hered
  Borowsky R, Wilkens H
  
  
• Nucleotide diversity in populations of balitorid cave fishes from Thailand.
  Mol Ecol
  Borowsky RL, Vidthayanon C
  
  
• Localization of a CDKN2 gene in linkage group V of Xiphophorus fishes defines it as a candidate for the DIFF tumor suppressor.
  Genes Chromosomes Cancer
  Kazianis S, Gutbrod H, Nairn RS, McEntire BB, Della Coletta L, Walter RB, Borowsky RL, Woodhead AD, Setlow RB, Schartl M, Morizot DC
  
  
• Evolutionary divergence of AP-PCR (RAPD) patterns.
  Mol Biol Evol
  Espinasa L, Borowsky R
  
  
• Genetic mapping in Xiphophorus hybrid fish: assignment of 43 AP-PCR/RAPD and isozyme markers to multipoint linkage groups.
  Genome Res
  Kazianis S, Morizot DC, McEntire BB, Nairn RS, Borowsky RL
  
  
• Arbitrarily primed DNA fingerprinting for phylogenetic reconstruction in vertebrates: the Xiphophorus model.
  Mol Biol Evol
  Borowsky RL, McClelland M, Cheng R, Welsh J
  
  
• Stable association of a pigmentation allele with an oncogene: nonhybrid melanomas in Xiphophorus variatus.
  J Hered
  Kazianis S, Borowsky R
  
  
• Spontaneous melanoma formation in nonhybrid Xiphophorus.
  Cancer Res
  Schartl A, Malitschek B, Kazianis S, Borowsky R, Schartl M
  
  
• Social Inhibition of Maturation in Natural Populations of Xiphophorus variatus (Pisces: Poeciliidae).
  Science
  Borowsky R
  
  
• Melanomas in Xiphophorus variatus (Pisces, Poeciliidae) in the absence of hybridization.
  Experientia
  Borowsky R
  
  

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