Zebrafish: development of a vertebrate model organism

JR Meyers - Current Protocols Essential Laboratory …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are a small‐bodied tropical, freshwater fish species originally from
South Asia. The ease of care, year‐round prolific breeding, and transparent, external …

Advancements in zebrafish applications for 21st century toxicology

GR Garcia, PD Noyes, RL Tanguay - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2016 - Elsevier
The zebrafish model is the only available high-throughput vertebrate assessment system,
and it is uniquely suited for studies of in vivo cell biology. A sequenced and annotated …

A substrate-specific mTORC1 pathway underlies Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome

G Napolitano, C Di Malta, A Esposito, MEG de Araujo… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) is a key metabolic hub that
controls the cellular response to environmental cues by exerting its kinase activity on …

Single-cell mapping of gene expression landscapes and lineage in the zebrafish embryo

DE Wagner, C Weinreb, ZM Collins, JA Briggs… - Science, 2018 - science.org
High-throughput mapping of cellular differentiation hierarchies from single-cell data
promises to empower systematic interrogations of vertebrate development and disease …

Changes in regeneration-responsive enhancers shape regenerative capacities in vertebrates

W Wang, CK Hu, A Zeng, D Alegre, D Hu, K Gotting… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The ability to regenerate tissues lost to damage or disease is widely but
nonuniformly distributed in vertebrates. Some animals such as teleost fishes can regenerate …

mScarlet3: a brilliant and fast-maturing red fluorescent protein

TWJ Gadella Jr, L van Weeren, J Stouthamer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We report the evolution of mScarlet3, a cysteine-free monomeric red fluorescent protein with
fast and complete maturation, as well as record brightness, quantum yield (75%) and …

Whole-organism lineage tracing by combinatorial and cumulative genome editing

A McKenna, GM Findlay, JA Gagnon, MS Horwitz… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The developmental path by which a fertilized egg gives rise to the cells of a
multicellular organism is termed the cell lineage. In 1983, John Sulston and colleagues …

Topological defects control collective dynamics in neural progenitor cell cultures

K Kawaguchi, R Kageyama, M Sano - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Cultured stem cells have become a standard platform not only for regenerative medicine
and developmental biology but also for biophysical studies. Yet, the characterization of …

Myelination generates aberrant ultrastructure that is resolved by microglia

M Djannatian, S Radha, U Weikert, S Safaiyan… - Journal of Cell …, 2023 - rupress.org
To enable rapid propagation of action potentials, axons are ensheathed by myelin, a
multilayered insulating membrane formed by oligodendrocytes. Most of the myelin is …

[HTML][HTML] Enteroendocrine cells sense bacterial tryptophan catabolites to activate enteric and vagal neuronal pathways

L Ye, M Bae, CD Cassilly, SV Jabba, DW Thorpe… - Cell host & …, 2021 - cell.com
The intestinal epithelium senses nutritional and microbial stimuli using epithelial sensory
enteroendocrine cells (EEC). EECs communicate nutritional information to the nervous …