Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 13, 2019, 12:58 p.m.
... oligonucleotides called morpholinos. When injected into zygotes, morpholinos complementary to a target...features that make zebrafish useful, I’ll outline two recent lineage tracing approaches that led to important...screens. Microscopy-based lineage tracing can help illuminate how signaling pathways—such as those regulated...fish lines have been developed to enable high-resolution mapping of the brain by uniquely labeling neurons...zebrafish have been embraced as a model organism, I’ll outline a few of the available genetic resources and highlight...of the zebrafish genome was published in 2013, revealing that about 70% of human genes have a counterpart...activity and does not work easily in zebrafish.) Morpholinos are a convenient and fast way to deactivate genes...