Freshwater biodiversity, from fish to frogs and microbes to macrophytes, provides a vast
array of services to people. Mounting concerns focus on the accelerating pace of biodiversity …

Obesity and diabetes now considered global epidemics. The prevalence rates of diabetes
are increasing in parallel with the rates of obesity and the strong connection between these …

The burden of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases worldwide is staggering. The
emergence of systems approaches in biology promises new therapies, faster and cheaper …

Understanding the detailed mechanism behind every human disease, disorder, defect, and
deficiency is a daunting task concerning the clinical diagnostic tools for patients. Hence, a …

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is emerging as a promising model organism for experimental
studies of stress and anxiety. Here we further validate zebrafish models of stress by …

The zebrafish Danio rerio, is an important model organism in developmental genetics,
neurophysiology and biomedicine, but little is known about its natural ecology and …

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) has been a prominent model vertebrate in a variety of biological
disciplines. Substantial information gathered from developmental and genetic research …

While the mammalian macrophage phenotypes have been intensively studied in vitro, the
dynamic of their phenotypic polarization has never been investigated in live vertebrates. We …

Transposons are mobile genetic elements evolved to execute highly efficient integration of
their genes into the genomes of their host cells. These natural DNA transfer vehicles have …

Rodent seizure models have significantly contributed to our basic understanding of epilepsy.
However, medically intractable forms of epilepsy persist and the fundamental mechanisms …