… that the behavioral genetic approach to zebrafish visual system development has come of age
… Three decades after George Streisinger started his work on zebrafish behavioral genetics, …

… for studying early development, and large-scale mutagenic screens for embryonic …
development of the CNS. We review here recent studies in zebrafish which shed light on the genetic …

… Overview of the Zebrafish System … for studies of vertebrate developmental genetics, much
of embryogenesis … the power of genetic analysis for understanding development and the …

… in the zebrafish promises to uncover many essential genes that may … zebrafish genetics
and genomics promises to keep zebrafish at the forefront of vertebrate developmental genetics …

… of rapid development that is essential for genetic studies, it is … the role of genetics in brain
and nervous system development in … hand, zebrafish brain and nervous system development is …

… all developmental genetics: how does the activity of genes explain the development of form
… The organism The reasons for the choice of zebrafish are evident (see Box): they have a 3–…

… of mutated genes have revealed cellular, molecular and physiological processes fundamental
to visual system development. With the increasing development of genetic manipulations, …

… number of key developmental genes. Since fertilization is external, the zebrafish embryo
develops in … at all stages of development. Furthermore, because the embryo is transparent, the …

… zebrafish, this species has become highly attractive as a vertebrate model for developmental
genetics… molecular studies of human genes because most human genes originated prior to …

… strengths of the zebrafish model system to introduce developmental biology and genetics
to … including direct observation of live wild-type zebrafish at different stages of embryogenesis, …