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Zebrafish are becoming an increasingly valuable tool for biology and genetics research

Zebrafish

ZEBRAFISH, a peer-reviewed MEDLINE journal, focuses on the zebrafish which has many valuable features as a model organism for study of vertebrate development. Due to its prolific reproduction and the external development of the transparent embryo, the zebrafish is a prime model for genetic and developmental studies, as well as research in toxicology and genomics.

"They're particularly useful because they are fecund, inexpensive to maintain, and their embryos are transparent, which means you can observe biological processes as they occur. Most of the human genome is represented in the fish genome. If you understand the function of a certain fish gene and you can find a corresponding human gene, you might have a shortcut to discovery."

Dr. Steven A. Farber
Carnegie Institution for Science in Baltimore
Project BioEYES

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