Zebrafish as an animal model for biomedical research

TY Choi, TI Choi, YR Lee, SK Choe… - Experimental & Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Zebrafish have several advantages compared to other vertebrate models used in modeling
human diseases, particularly for large-scale genetic mutant and therapeutic compound …

High-throughput functional genomics using CRISPR–Cas9

O Shalem, NE Sanjana, F Zhang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Forward genetic screens are powerful tools for the discovery and functional annotation of
genetic elements. Recently, the RNA-guided CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short …

The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

K Howe, MD Clark, CF Torroja, J Torrance, C Berthelot… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Zebrafish have become a popular organism for the study of vertebrate gene function,. The
virtually transparent embryos of this species, and the ability to accelerate genetic studies by …

Reverse genetic screening reveals poor correlation between morpholino-induced and mutant phenotypes in zebrafish

FO Kok, M Shin, CW Ni, A Gupta, AS Grosse… - Developmental cell, 2015 - cell.com
The widespread availability of programmable site-specific nucleases now enables targeted
gene disruption in the zebrafish. In this study, we applied site-specific nucleases to generate …

High-throughput gene targeting and phenotyping in zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9

GK Varshney, W Pei, MC LaFave, J Idol, L Xu… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
The use of CRISPR/Cas9 as a genome-editing tool in various model organisms has
radically changed targeted mutagenesis. Here, we present a high-throughput targeted …

Zebrafish as a successful animal model for screening toxicity of medicinal plants

A Modarresi Chahardehi, H Arsad, V Lim - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is used as an embryonic and larval model to perform in vitro
experiments and developmental toxicity studies. Zebrafish may be used to determine the …

A high-resolution mRNA expression time course of embryonic development in zebrafish

RJ White, JE Collins, IM Sealy, N Wali, CM Dooley… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
We have produced an mRNA expression time course of zebrafish development across 18
time points from 1 cell to 5 days post-fertilisation sampling individual and pools of embryos …

Developmental genetics with model organisms

U Irion, C Nüsslein-Volhard - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
In Darwin's and Mendel's times, researchers investigated a wealth of organisms, chosen to
solve particular problems for which they seemed especially well suited. Later, a focus on a …

Little fish, big data: zebrafish as a model for cardiovascular and metabolic disease

P Gut, S Reischauer, DYR Stainier… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
The burden of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases worldwide is staggering. The
emergence of systems approaches in biology promises new therapies, faster and cheaper …

Zebrafish as a model system to study toxicology

YJ Dai, YF Jia, N Chen, WP Bian, QK Li… - Environmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Monitoring and assessing the effects of contaminants in the aquatic eco‐environment is
critical in protecting human health and the environment. The zebrafish has been widely used …