Teleost fish, which roughly make up half of the extant vertebrate species, exhibit an amazing
level of biodiversity affecting their morphology, ecology and behaviour as well as many other …

Transcriptional control is a major mechanism for regulating gene expression. The complex
machinery required to effect this control is still emerging from functional and evolutionary …

The zebrafish genomic sequence database was analysed for the presence of genes
encoding members of the Toll-like receptors (TLR) and interleukin receptors (IL-R) and …

The innate immune system constitutes an efficient defense against invading microbial
pathogens. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) eventually alert vertebrates about the presence of …

When looking for a book on fish toxicology, you might find one that discusses the
biochemical and molecular aspects, or one that focuses aquatic toxicology in general. You …

Distal-less is the earliest known gene specifically expressed in developing insect limbs; its
expression is maintained throughout limb development. The homeodomain transcription …

Siglecs (sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-type lectins) are a family of immune regulatory
receptors predominantly found on the cells of the hematopoietic system. A V-set Ig-like …

It has been suggested that fish have more genes than humans. Whether most of these
additional genes originated through a complete (fish-specific) genome duplication or …

There are two estrogen receptor (ER) subtypes in fish, ERα and ERβ, and increasing
evidence that the ERβ subtype has more than one form. However, there is little information …

Teleost fishes provide the first unambiguous support for ancient whole-genome duplication
in an animal lineage. Studies in yeast or plants have shown that the effects of such …