PUBLICATION
Mayo Clinic Zebrafish Facility Overview
- Authors
- Leveque, R.E., Clark, K.J., Ekker, S.C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-160330-2
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Zebrafish 13 Suppl 1: S44-6 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Clark, Karl, Ekker, Stephen C.
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animal Husbandry/methods*
- Animal Husbandry/organization & administration
- Zebrafish*
- Facility Design and Construction*
- Minnesota
- Animals, Laboratory*
- Aquaculture/methods*
- Aquaculture/organization & administration
- Models, Animal
- Animals
- PubMed
- 27023741 Full text @ Zebrafish
Citation
Leveque, R.E., Clark, K.J., Ekker, S.C. (2016) Mayo Clinic Zebrafish Facility Overview. Zebrafish. 13 Suppl 1:S44-6.
Abstract
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a premier nonmammalian vertebrate model organism. This small aquatic fish is utilized in multiple disciplines in the Mayo Clinic community and by many laboratories around the world because of its biological similarity to humans, its advanced molecular genetics, the elucidation of its genome sequence, and the ever-expanding and outstanding new biological tools now available to the zebrafish researcher. The Mayo Clinic Zebrafish Facility (MCZF) houses ∼2,000 tanks annotated using an in-house, Internet cloud-based bar-coding system tied to our established zfishbook.org web infrastructure. Paramecia are the primary food source for larval fish rearing, using a simplified culture protocol described herein. The MCZF supports the specific ongoing research in a variety of laboratories, while also serving as a local hub for new scientists as they learn to tap into the potential of this model system for understanding normal development, disease, and as models of health.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping