In recent years, zebrafish, and to a lesser extent medaka, have become widely used small
animal models for human diseases. These organisms have convincingly demonstrated the …

Abstract The Japanese medaka, Oryzias latipes, is a vertebrate teleost model with a long
history of genetic research. A number of unique features and established resources …

Many fields of biology—including vertebrate Evo‐Devo research—are facing an explosion of
genomic and transcriptomic sequence information and a multitude of fish species are now …

Teleosts comprise about half of all vertebrate species and exhibit an extraordinary diversity
of adult pigment patterns that function in shoaling, camouflage, and mate choice and have …

Melanoma is a severe type of skin cancer with a high metastasis potential and poor survival
rates once metastasized. The causes of melanoma formation are multifactorial and not fully …

Environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) have attracted extensive attention due to
their potential toxicity. However, EPFRs-containing particles always coexist with their parent …

In adaptating to perpetual darkness, cave species gradually lose eyes and body
pigmentation and evolve alternatives for exploring their environments. Although troglodyte …

The most valuable application of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology is genome
sequencing. Genomes of several aquatic models had been sequenced in the past few years …

The members of the solute carrier 45 (SLC45) family have been implicated in the regulation
of glucose homoeostasis in the brain (SLC45A1), with skin and hair pigmentation …

Besides recently developed zebrafish cancer models, other fish species have been
employed for many years as cancer models in laboratory studies. Two models, namely in …