Current high‐throughput screening methods for drug discovery rely on the existence of
targets. Moreover, most of the hits generated during screenings turn out to be invalid after …

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a common research model in fish studies of toxicology,
developmental biology, neurobiology and molecular genetics; it has been proposed as a …

Zebrafish has been gaining increasing amount of interest in behavioral neuroscience as this
species may represent a good compromise between system complexity and practical …

In 1868, Friedrich Miescher completed his medical training and joined the physiological
chemistry laboratory of Felix Hoppe-Seyler to study the chemical composition of biological …

The conservative nature of animal evolution makes animal models the ideal tool for learning
about human biology. The Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, Second Edition: Animal …

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a versatile model organism that has been used in biomedical
research for several decades to study a wide range of biological phenomena. There are …

Cichlid fishes have been the subject of increasing scientific interest because of their rapid
adaptive radiation that has led to extensive ecological diversity and because of their …

Discovery of novel cancer chemotherapeutics focuses on screening and identifying
compounds that can target 'cancer-specific'biological processes while causing minimal …

The recent re-annotation of the transcriptome of human and other model organisms, using
next-generation sequencing approaches, has unravelled a hitherto unknown repertoire of …

Cichlidae is the most species-rich freshwater family of Perciformes and has attracted the
attention of aquarium hobbyists, aquaculturists, and sport fisherman. Oreochromis niloticus …