Physical enrichment research for captive fish: Time to focus on the DETAILS

NAR Jones, MM Webster… - Journal of Fish …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Growing research effort has shown that physical enrichment (PE) can improve fish welfare
and research validity. However, the inclusion of PE does not always result in positive effects …

Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes

R Betancur-R, EO Wiley, G Arratia, A Acero… - BMC evolutionary …, 2017 - Springer
Background Fish classifications, as those of most other taxonomic groups, are being
transformed drastically as new molecular phylogenies provide support for natural groups …

Deriving genotypes from RAD-seq short-read data using Stacks

NC Rochette, JM Catchen - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
Restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) allows for the genome-wide
discovery and genotyping of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in hundreds of individuals at …

The spotted gar genome illuminates vertebrate evolution and facilitates human-teleost comparisons

I Braasch, AR Gehrke, JJ Smith, K Kawasaki… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To connect human biology to fish biomedical models, we sequenced the genome of spotted
gar (Lepisosteus oculatus), whose lineage diverged from teleosts before teleost genome …

The Role of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma (PPARG) in Adipogenesis: Applying Knowledge from the Fish Aquaculture Industry to Biomedical …

R Wafer, P Tandon, JEN Minchin - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The tropical freshwater zebrafish has recently emerged as a valuable model organism for
the study of adipose tissue biology and obesity-related disease. The strengths of the …

The Bgee suite: integrated curated expression atlas and comparative transcriptomics in animals

FB Bastian, J Roux, A Niknejad, A Comte… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Bgee is a database to retrieve and compare gene expression patterns in multiple animal
species, produced by integrating multiple data types (RNA-Seq, Affymetrix, in situ …

Rapid genome reshaping by multiple-gene loss after whole-genome duplication in teleost fish suggested by mathematical modeling

J Inoue, Y Sato, R Sinclair… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Whole-genome duplication (WGD) is believed to be a significant source of major
evolutionary innovation. Redundant genes resulting from WGD are thought to be lost or …

An improved genome assembly uncovers prolific tandem repeats in Atlantic cod

OK Tørresen, B Star, S Jentoft, WB Reinar, H Grove… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The first Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) genome assembly published in
2011 was one of the early genome assemblies exclusively based on high-throughput 454 …

Thyroid hormone regulates distinct paths to maturation in pigment cell lineages

LM Saunders, AK Mishra, AJ Aman, VM Lewis… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Thyroid hormone (TH) regulates diverse developmental events and can drive disparate
cellular outcomes. In zebrafish, TH has opposite effects on neural crest derived pigment …

Antarctic blackfin icefish genome reveals adaptations to extreme environments

BM Kim, A Amores, S Kang, DH Ahn, JH Kim… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Icefishes (suborder Notothenioidei; family Channichthyidae) are the only
vertebrates that lack functional haemoglobin genes and red blood cells. Here, we report a …