Fish development and genetics : the zebrafish and medaka models
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Fish development and genetics : the zebrafish and medaka models
(Molecular aspects of fish and marine biology, v. 2)
World Scientific, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The zebrafish is the most important fish model in developmental and genetic analyses. This book contains 19 review articles covering a broad spectrum of topics, from development to genetic tools. The contents range from early development, the role of maternal factors and gastrulation, to tissue differentiation and organogenesis, such as development of the organizer, notochord, floor plate, nervous system, somites, muscle, skeleton and endoderm. The genetic tools cover morpholino knock-down, transgenics, fish cloning, transposons and genome evolution. The book also includes two chapters on genome mapping and embryonic stem cells in medaka, another important model fish. Summarizing the state-of-the-art studies of the zebrafish model and focusing on the molecular aspects of development, this book is a valuable reference for students learning the basic aspects of the zebrafish model, and for researchers seeking resources in zebrafish research.
Table of Contents
- The Role of Maternal Factors in Early Zebrafish Development (F Pelegri)
- Gastrulation in Zebrafish (F Ulrich & C-P Heisenberg)
- Form and Function in the Zebrafish Nervous System (M Hendricks & S Jesuthasan)
- Somite Segmentation: A View from Fish (H Takeda & Y Saga)
- Molecular Regulation of Fish Muscle Development and Growth (S J Du)
- Transgenic Fish for Developmental Biology Studies (Z Gong et al.)
- Cloning the Zebrafish (B Ju et al.)
- Evolution of the Zebrafish Genome (J Postlthewait et al.)
- Medaka Genome Mappling for the Functional Genomics (H Mitani et al.)
- Medaka Embryonic Stem Cells (Y Hong & M Schartl)
- and other articles.
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