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Laboratory fish in biomedical research : biology, husbandry and research applications for zebrafish, medaka, killifish, swordtail fish, cavefish, stickleback, goldfish and Danionella translucida /

"Fish, particularly zebrafish, have become the fatest-growing segment of the research population. They offer several advantages in biology and applicable technologies and thus are employed in numerous research fields. Laboratory Fish in Biomedical Research: Biology, Husbandry and Research Appli...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: D'Angelo, Livia (Editor), De Girolamo, Paolo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, UK : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2022]
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Table of Contents:
  • Fish as model systems
  • Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Biology and research applications
  • Housing and maintenance of zebrafish, new technologies in laboratory aquatic systems and considerations for facility design
  • Breeding and larviculture of zebrafish (Danio rerio)
  • Health monitoring, disease, and clinical pathology
  • The welfare of zebrafish
  • Analgesia, anesthesia, and euthanasia in zebrafish
  • Transgenesis, mutagenesis, knockdown, and genetic colony management
  • Sperm cryopreservation, in vitro fertilization, and embryo freezing
  • Other small freshwater fish. Medaka as a model teleost: characteristics and approaches of genetic modification
  • Integrated analyses using medaka as a powerful model animal toward understanding various aspects of reproductive regulation
  • The African turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri): biology and research applications
  • Challenges in keeping annual killifish
  • Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus): biology, husbandry, and experimental protocols
  • The housing, care, and use of a laboratory three-spined stickleback colony
  • Goldfish (Carassius auratus): biology, husbandry, and research applications
  • Danionella translucida, a tankful of new opportunities
  • Databases. Fish inventory databases.