Beyond the zebrafish: Diverse fish species for modeling human disease

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 181-192

  Schartl, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Evolutionary mutant model; Fish model; Natural variation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MUTATION; ORYZIAS; PHYSIOLOGY; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MUTATION; ORYZIAS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84894336943     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.012245     Document Type: Review

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