Cobo, R.
Navarro-Sempere, A.
García-Martínez, A.
Valero-Picó, E.
Segovia, Y.
García, M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universidad de Alicante
Article History
Received: 23 October 2025
Revised: 13 January 2026
Accepted: 24 January 2026
First Online: 27 February 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All specimens were obtained post-mortem from the Santa Faz Wildlife Recovery Centre (Alicante, Spain) following euthanasia for clinical reasons unrelated to ocular pathology. All procedures complied with institutional and national ethical regulations for the use of animal tissues in research and were approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Alicante (approval code UA-2020-03-04).