Zebrafish development

Wendl T, Lun K, Mione M, Eavor J, Brand M, Wilson SW et al (2002) Pax2.1 is required for development of thyroid follicles in zebrafish. Development 129 3751-3760... 

It is now clear that earlier studies indicating that very low levels of boron are toxic to fish embryos were actually documenting the effects of boron deficiency [83]. More recent studies on fish show that embryonic growth is stimulated by boron in a dose-dependent manner [80]. While very high boron levels are toxic, insufficient boron levels (<9 pmol B) were shown to result in adverse effects on rainbow trout and zebrafish development. 

Zebrafish embryo assay results were compared to the ToxCast in vitro assay features from the predictive model of developmental toxicity (50). A majority of the features were significant between the zebrafish data and predictive models, despite the fact that the zebrafish assay did not correlate with global developmental toxicity defined by species-specific ToxRefDB data. The top 15 chemicals predicted to be developmental toxicants and bottom 15 chemicals predicted not to be developmental toxicants varied in their endpoint responses and logP values. Padilla et al. (35) noted that chemical-physical characteristics could limit the amount of chemical seen by the embryo due to poor solubility or poor uptake. This may be the reason that a majority of the bottom 15 chemicals with no zebrafish embryo activity had logP values less than 1.0. The bottom 15 chemicals with zebrafish embryo activity could almost exclusively be characterized by the negative predictors of the species-specific developmental toxicity models, which may be indicating that these predictors have differing roles between mammalian and zebrafish development. 

Halloran, M.C., M. Sato-Maeda, J.T. Warren, F. Su, Z. Lele, P.H. Krone, J.Y. Kuwada and W. Shoji. Laser-induced gene expression in specific cells of transgenic zebrafish. Development 127 1953-1960, 2000. 

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Vlachakis, N., Choe, S.K., Sagerstrom, C.G. 2001. Meis3 synergizes with Pbx4 and Hoxblb in promoting hindbrain fates in the zebrafish. Development 128, 1299-1312. 

Akimenko, M.A., Johnson, S.L., Westerfield, M., Ekker, M. 1995. Differential induction of four Msx homeobox genes during fin development and regeneration in zebrafish. Development 121, 347-357. 

Adult El boron-deficient zebrafish developed photophobia characterized by photoreceptor dystrophy photoreceptor cells were shorter than those of boron-supplemented controls because of a reduction in myoid and outer segment regions. 

E., Briolat, V., Lin, FI. F., et al. (2006) Tracing hematopoietic precursor migration to successive hematopoietic organs during zebrafish development. Immunity 963-975. 

Shestopalov, LA. and Chen, J.K. (2010) Oligonucleotide-based tools for studying zebrafish development. Zebrafish, 7, 31-40. 

Thorpe CJ, Moon RT. 2004. nemo-like kinase is an essential co-activator of Wnt signaling during early zebrafish development. Development 131(12) 2899-2909. 

Tsai WB, Zhang X, Sharma D, Wu W, Kinsey WH. 2005. Role of Yes kinase during early zebrafish development. Dev Biol 277(1) 129-141. 

A detailed description of the stages of zebrafish development has recently been published (32) and the reader who is interested in a detailed look at the key features of this developmental series should read this paper and refer to the Zebrafish Book (33). What follows is a brief description of the key stages of zebrafish development over the first 2-s period—all of the terms and stages are consistent with those used by Kimmel et al. (32) and relate to embryos growing at 28.5°C. 

Warga, R. and Kimmel, C. (1990) Cell movements during epiboly and gastmlation in the zebrafish. Development 108,569-580. 

Small-Scale Marker-Based Screening for Mutations in Zebrafish Development... 

Xu, Q. L., Holder, N., Patient, R., and Wilson, S. W. (1994). Spatially regulated expression of 3 receptor tyrosine kinase genes during gastrulation in the zebrafish. Development 120,287-299. 

Stachel, S. E., Grunwald, D. J., and Myers, P. Z. (1993) Lithium perturbation and goosecoid expression identify a dorsal specification pathway in the pregastrula zebrafish. Development 117,1261-1274. 

Reinhard E et al. (1994) Neural selective activation and temporal regulation of a mammalian GAP-43 promoter in zebrafish. Development 120(7)1767-1775. 

Halloran MC et al. (2000) Laser-induced gene expression in specific cells of transgenic zebrafish. Development 127(9) 1953-1960. 

Bayer TA, Campos-Ortega JA (1992) A transgene containing laeZ is expressed in primary sensory neurons in zebrafish. Development 115 421 26. 

MACKAY A B, MHANNi A A, MCGOWAN R A and KRONE p H (2007) Immuuological detection of changes in genomic DNA methylation during early zebrafish development. Genome, 50,778-785. 

Zebrafish have been used to screen for small molecules giving rise to teratogenic effects for example, cardiosulfa was found to give rise to severe heart defects in early zebrafish development. " Such molecules will provide valuable tools in elucidating key events in development and may prove to be useful tools... 

Driever W, Solnica-Krezel L, Schieret AF et al (1996) A genetic screen for mutations affecting embryogenesis in zebrafish. Development 123 37 6... 

Chen JN et al (1996) Mutations affecting the cardiovascular system and other internal organs in zebrafish. Development 123 293-302... 

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