Researchers are turning to zebrafish to unlock the secrets of place cells, which play a crucial role in forming mental maps of space, social networks, and abstract relationships. Until now, place ...
Since 2016, the Plavicki lab has explored the ways that environmental contaminants, which are chemical stressors, affect the brain and heart development of zebrafish. Along with a team of three ...
How can artificial light influence the behavior of zebrafish? This is what a recent study published in Science of The Total Environment hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a small tropical minnow that is playing an increasingly big role in the world of scientific research. In the last year alone, researchers working with this diminutive ...
Researchers from Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan have revealed that environment influences social behaviors in autism. By using zebrafish that have a mutation in ube3a, a gene ...
Information about the welfare and husbandry of pet and laboratory fish is scarce although millions of fish are sold in pet shops and used in laboratory research every year. Inadequate housing ...
ube3a mutant zebrafish perceive the environmental signal from the retina as a threat or safe, respectively leading to increased or low anxiety levels. When the output is high anxiety levels, as in an ...
Researchers from The University of Melbourne published data from a study that aimed to establish a novel myopia model that would facilitate large-scale in vivo studies for investigating molecular ...
Sean Burgess (right) and Bruce Draper, professors in the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, are using zebrafish to detect chemicals that may cause reproductive harm. The GloNad fish glow red or ...