The MicroRNAome Strikes Back: A Sokalian hoax (4)

…pH values from 2.5 to 7. Foreign organisms found in this underground ecosystem can oxidize H2S to H2SO4.

The established biodiversity is obviously pH-dependent and oxidative phosphorylation was linked to the stability of organized genomes in 1964: Dependence of RNA synthesis in isolated thymus nuclei on glycolysis, oxidative carbohydrate catabolism and a type of “oxidative phosphorylation”. Other serious scientists moved forward in the context of the energy-dependent hydrophobicity of supercoiled DNA.
See: Structural diversity of supercoiled DNA

Our data provide relative comparisons of supercoiling-dependent twisted, writhed, curved, and kinked conformations and associated base exposure. Each of these structural features may be differentially recognized by the proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules that modulate DNA metabolic processes.

Outside the context of the epigenetic effect of anti-entropic virucidal energy from sunlight on supercoiled DNA, or perhaps in the context of minimal exposure to ultraviolet light, the metagenomic diversity of bacteria in caves with sulfur water springs led  Bautista et. al., (2018) to conclude:

…20,901 reads of bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences spanning V1–V3 hypervariable regions corresponded to seven phyla: Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Chloroflexi, Chlorobi, Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria and Acidobacteria. Proteobacteria phylum dominance could be due to the increased presence of organic matter, not only of bat guano but also that caused by man and animals, directly or through infiltrations. For the UJAT5 sample, we generated 6,691 reads, which, due to the
physicochemical characteristics (Table 1) and relative frequency obtained (Figure 4), could confirm the presence of acidophilic Proteobacteria in VL caves. All the bacterial communities identified are characteristic of caves, while Acidobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria are typical of volcanic surface terrain.

Simply put, they seem to assume that the increased presence of organic matter is the food energy that supports the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction in the different species. But they do not link the creation of sunlight to differences in the food the organisms eat.
By skipping the link from the creation of sunlight — as did Nonomura (2018) in his Sokalian hoax, evolutionists have tried to convince others who are biologically uninformed that the eyes of blind cave fish exemplify evolution in the process of the fish becoming blind.
See: Evolution of an adaptive behavior and its sensory receptors promotes eye regression in blind cavefish
See (pun intended) Blind Cavefish Can Produce Sighted Offspring  (2008)

It’s a miracle! Blind cavefish, despite having adapted to their lightless environment for more than a million years, can produce sighted offspring in just a single generation, a new study reveals.

This means that even though the fish are blind, they basically have functional visual systems that have been deactivated by a few key mutations, said Jeffery, who was unaffiliated with the study.

See also: The fish evolved from surface-dwelling ancestors during the past million years. (2003)
Everything biologically uninformed theorists report must be linked toi evolution and back by mutations. They refuse to differentiate between mutations and food energy-dependent ecological adaptations because they cannot accept the fact that all biophysically constrained biodiversity is food energy-dependent and constrained by energy-dependent viral latency.
For comparison, what serious scientists see happening in the blind cave fish is the regression of food energy-dependent visual acuity in organisms that can find food without  the energy-dependent creation of G protein-coupled photoreceptors. Only the energy-dependent creation of chemoreceptors is required to link pH-taxis to survival of the microbes and the blind cave fish via what is known about oxidative phosphorylation in other species that display receptor-mediated behaviors.
What science journalists see happen is causing them to back away from their pseudoscintific claims from the past. See for example:

Hydration as a design element in biomaterials  Philip Ball January 24, 2018

John Hewitt January 24, 2018 N6-methyladenosine RNA modification regulates embryonic neural stem cell self-renewal through histone modifications 
Will water link RNA modifications to stem cell self-renewal, or will light-activated endogenous substrates and biophysically constrained RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions be tossed into the brickyard for the win?