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 ...

"We found that the cone mosaic pattern, especially the red cone arrangement, is disrupted in zebrafish Dscamb mutants." In ...

for the generation of zebrafish mutant lines and genotyping; and the staff of the High-Performance Computing Facility, Centre for Computational Medicine, HSC, for data processing and data analysis ...

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 ...

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 ...

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One of the predominant systems for genetic screens related to the vasculature of zebrafish was developed ... DNA sequencing in the wild-type and the mutant organisms to discover the specific ...

As a vertebrate, the zebrafish possesses many genes that perform the same or similar functions in mammals and therefore also in humans. Approximately 70 percent of zebrafish genes are also present in ...