Fish Development and Genetics: The Zebrafish and Medaka Models

by Zhiyuan, Gong

• ISBN13: 9789812388216
• ISBN10: 9812388214
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The role of maternal factors in early zebrafish development	p. 1
Gastrulation in zebrafish	p. 39
Development of the zebrafish organizer and notochord	p. 87
Formation and functions of the floor plate	p. 121
Form and function in the zebrafish nervous system	p. 164
Development of the primary nervous system of the zebrafish embryo	p. 185
Making scents : development and function of the olfactory sensory system	p. 216
Somite segmentation : a view from fish	p. 261
Vertebrate somite development, notch signaling and others	p. 294
Molecular regulation of fish muscle development and growth	p. 339
Skeletogenesis in zebrafish Danio rerio : evolutionary and developmental aspects	p. 392
Endoderm formation in zebrafish	p. 424
Gene 'knockdown' approaches using unconventional antisense oligonucleotides	p. 454
Transgenic fish for developmental biology studies	p. 476
Cloning the zebrafish	p. 517
Applications of transposable elements in fish for transgenesis and functional genomics	p. 532
Evolution of the zebrafish genome	p. 581
Medaka genome mapping for functional genomics	p. 612
Medaka embryonic stem cells	p. 637
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