Use of platyfishes and swordtails in biological research

Lab Animal

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 46-52

  Kazianis, Steven ^a   Walter, Ronald B ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CANCER MODEL; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CROSS BREEDING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTATION; FISH; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC STRAIN; HYBRID; LIFESPAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; REVIEW; TUMOR MODEL; XIPHOPHORUS;

ANIMALS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; RESEARCH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; XIPHOPHORUS;

EID: 0012925267     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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