Increased functional protein expression using nucleotide sequence features enriched in highly expressed genes in zebrafish

EJ Horstick, DC Jordan, SA Bergeron… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Many genetic manipulations are limited by difficulty in obtaining adequate levels of protein
expression. Bioinformatic and experimental studies have identified nucleotide sequence …

In with the old, in with the new: the promiscuity of the duplication process engenders diverse pathways for novel gene creation

V Katju - International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The gene duplication process has exhibited far greater promiscuity in the creation of
paralogs with novel exon‐intron structures than anticipated even by Ohno. In this paper I …

Transcriptome analysis of pancreatic cells across distant species highlights novel important regulator genes

E Tarifeño-Saldivia, A Lavergne, A Bernard… - BMC biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Defining the transcriptome and the genetic pathways of pancreatic cells is of
great interest for elucidating the molecular attributes of pancreas disorders such as diabetes …

Population genetic diversity in zebrafish lines

M Balik-Meisner, L Truong, EH Scholl, RL Tanguay… - Mammalian …, 2018 - Springer
Toxicological and pharmacological researchers have seized upon the many benefits of
zebrafish, including the short generation time, well-characterized development, and early …

The reference genome of Macropodus opercularis (the paradise fish)

E Fodor, J Okendo, N Szabó, K Szabó, D Czimer… - Scientific data, 2024 - nature.com
Amongst fishes, zebrafish (Danio rerio) has gained popularity as a model system over most
other species and while their value as a model is well documented, their usefulness is …

The Most Developmentally Truncated Fishes Show Extensive Hox Gene Loss and Miniaturized Genomes

M Malmstrøm, R Britz, M Matschiner… - Genome biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The world's smallest fishes belong to the genus Paedocypris. These miniature fishes are
endemic to an extreme habitat: the peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia, characterized by …

Intron size minimisation in teleosts

LM Jakt, A Dubin, SD Johansen - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background Spliceosomal introns are parts of primary transcripts that are removed by RNA
splicing. Although introns apparently do not contribute to the function of the mature …

Hybrid genome assembly and annotation of Danionella translucida

M Kadobianskyi, L Schulze, M Schuelke, B Judkewitz - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
Studying neuronal circuits at cellular resolution is very challenging in vertebrates due to the
size and optical turbidity of their brains. Danionella translucida, a close relative of zebrafish …

Advances in vertebrate (cyto) genomics shed new light on fish compositional genome evolution

D Matoulek, B Ježek, M Vohnoutová, R Symonová - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cytogenetic and compositional studies considered fish genomes rather poor in guanine-
cytosine content (GC%) because of a putative “sharp increase in genic GC% during the …

The genetic map of goldfish (Carassius auratus) provided insights to the divergent genome evolutions in the Cyprinidae family

YY Kuang, XH Zheng, CY Li, XM Li, DC Cao… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
A high-density linkage map of goldfish (Carassius auratus) was constructed using RNA-
sequencing. This map consists of 50 linkage groups with 8,521 SNP markers and an …