In vivo imaging technologies have emerged as a powerful tool for both fundamental
research and clinical practice. In particular, luminescence imaging in the tissue-transparent …

Fish biology has been developed for more than 100 years, but some important
breakthroughs have been made in the last decade. Early studies commonly concentrated on …

TGF-β family ligands function in inducing and patterning many tissues of the early vertebrate
embryonic body plan. Nodal signaling is essential for the specification of mesendodermal …

Gene duplications and gene losses have been frequent events in the evolution of animal
genomes, with the balance between these two dynamic processes contributing to major …

Although domesticated goldfish strains exhibit highly diversified phenotypes in morphology,
the genetic basis underlying these phenotypes is poorly understood. Here, based on …

Goldfish comprise around 300 different strains with drastically altered and aesthetical
morphologies making them suitable models for evolutionary developmental biology. The …

Developmental biology has contributed greatly to evolutionary biology in the past century.
With the discovery that vertebrates share Hox genes with Drosophila in 1984, it became …

The development of paired appendages was a key innovation during evolution and
facilitated the aquatic to terrestrial transition of vertebrates. Largely derived from the lateral …

Domestic animals are ubiquitous. In contrast to the biodiversity crisis currently impacting
many kinds of animals and plants, not a single domesticated species is endangered …

The goldfish (Carassius auratus) is a domesticated cyprinid teleost closely related to the
crucian carp. Goldfish domestication occurred in South China around 1,000 years ago. At …