Using zebrafish mutants produced primarily by chemical mutagenesis, researchers have, in recent years, turned the popular aquarium pets, originally from India, into invaluable tools for understanding ...

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...

Previous studies have shown that protein expression of DOCK7 is increased in skeletal muscle biopsies from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), leading researchers from the University of ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. For a creature that’s less than one and a half inches long, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) looms large in biomedical ...

“We found that the cone mosaic pattern, especially red cone arrangement, is disrupted in zebrafish Dscamb mutants.” In the early stage of photoreceptor differentiation in zebrafish, cone ...

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Zebrafish are unassuming and undemanding. Almost every child knows that – at least any child that has kept fish in an aquarium. Since the beginning of the 20th century, these fish have been one of the ...

We found that in zebrafish, the functions of human VHL have been split over two genes, which we named vhl and vhl-like (vll). Interestingly, we found that the fish vhl gene has an important role in ...