Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays

P Nowak-Sliwinska, K Alitalo, E Allen, A Anisimov… - Angiogenesis, 2018 - Springer
The formation of new blood vessels, or angiogenesis, is a complex process that plays
important roles in growth and development, tissue and organ regeneration, as well as …

Genetic compensation: A phenomenon in search of mechanisms

MA El-Brolosy, DYR Stainier - PLoS genetics, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Several recent studies in a number of model systems including zebrafish, Arabidopsis, and
mouse have revealed phenotypic differences between knockouts (ie, mutants) and …

[HTML][HTML] A network of noncoding regulatory RNAs acts in the mammalian brain

B Kleaveland, CY Shi, J Stefano, DP Bartel - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) play increasingly appreciated gene-regulatory roles. Here, we
describe a regulatory network centered on four ncRNAs—a long ncRNA, a circular RNA …

Genetic compensation induced by deleterious mutations but not gene knockdowns

A Rossi, Z Kontarakis, C Gerri, H Nolte, S Hölper… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Cells sense their environment and adapt to it by fine-tuning their transcriptome. Wired into
this network of gene expression control are mechanisms to compensate for gene dosage …

A rapid method for directed gene knockout for screening in G0 zebrafish

RS Wu, II Lam, H Clay, DN Duong, RC Deo… - Developmental cell, 2018 - cell.com
Zebrafish is a powerful model for forward genetics. Reverse genetic approaches are limited
by the time required to generate stable mutant lines. We describe a system for gene …

Evolution to the rescue: using comparative genomics to understand long non-coding RNAs

I Ulitsky - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged in recent years as major players in a
multitude of pathways across species, but it remains challenging to understand which of …

Guidelines for morpholino use in zebrafish

DYR Stainier, E Raz, ND Lawson, SC Ekker… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has emerged as a powerful model to study vertebrate
development and disease. Its short generation time makes it amenable to genetic …

High-throughput gene targeting and phenotyping in zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9

GK Varshney, W Pei, MC LaFave, J Idol, L Xu… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
The use of CRISPR/Cas9 as a genome-editing tool in various model organisms has
radically changed targeted mutagenesis. Here, we present a high-throughput targeted …

Making waves: New developments in toxicology with the zebrafish

KA Horzmann, JL Freeman - Toxicological Sciences, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The laboratory zebrafish (Danio rerio) is now an accepted model in toxicologic research.
The zebrafish model fills a niche between in vitro models and mammalian biomedical …

A high-resolution mRNA expression time course of embryonic development in zebrafish

RJ White, JE Collins, IM Sealy, N Wali, CM Dooley… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
We have produced an mRNA expression time course of zebrafish development across 18
time points from 1 cell to 5 days post-fertilisation sampling individual and pools of embryos …