Medaka A Model for Organogenesis, Human Disease, and Evolution /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Naruse, Kiyoshi (Editor), Tanaka, Minoru (Editor), Takeda, Hiroyuki (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Developmental biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Animal genetics.; Transgenic organisms.; Animal models in research.; Life Sciences.; Animal Models.; Developmental Biology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Transgenics.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.

Oryzias latipes, known as medaka, is a model organism from East Asia. Breeding of this small, egg-laying freshwater teleost fish has long been popular among hobbyists in Japan. Now, as biological science has entered the genome era, the medaka provides significant advantages that make it one of the m...