1 / 12

Created By: Jasmine D. Annah U. Michael S.

Zebrafish. Created By: Jasmine D. Annah U. Michael S. What Are Zebrafish???. Fresh water fish found in slow streams They eat smaller living organisms They get eaten by bigger fish, small amphibians, mammals, or birds. ….cont.

chi
Download Presentation

Created By: Jasmine D. Annah U. Michael S.

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Zebrafish Created By: Jasmine D. Annah U. Michael S.

  2. What Are Zebrafish??? • Fresh water fish found in slow streams • They eat smaller living organisms • They get eaten by bigger fish, small amphibians, mammals, or birds.

  3. ….cont. • Those that are inbred usually have a 60-85% survival rate which is some what fair. • Some common names would be Zebra danis or stripped danio.

  4. History • Bionomial name is Danio Rerio • Originally from the Ganges River in East India and Burma and also found in rice patties.

  5. ….cont. • Early studies in zebra fish were limited by the lack of genomic resources. • The zebra fish has been a model organism for the last 15 years. • Part of the Cyprinidea family • In 1970, George Streisinger was the first to use zebra fish for a genetic analysis of vertebrate development. • He also was the first to clone the zebrafish.

  6. Research on Zebrafish • Zebrafish have particular characteristics that make it very suitable for genetic research on embryo development. • This has led to an explosion of interest in zebrafish research in the last 10 years. • Zebrafish embryos develop extremely rapidly - from the one cell stage to hatching of the tiny fish takes 48 hours.

  7. …..cont. • Genetics research in Zebrafish has potential to reduce birth defects In humans • By injecting a customized "genetic patch" into early stage fish embryos, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis were able to correct a genetic mutation so the embryos developed normally.

  8. ….cont. • The research could lead to the prevention of up to one-fifth of birth defects in humans caused by genetic mutations

  9. Annah- Looked up the current research/video. Jasmine- Looked up the history behind the zebrafish/pictures. Michael- Looked up zebrafish in general. Contributes

  10. Sources… • http://www.neuro.uoregon.edu/k12/FAQs.html#Originate • http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases.htm

More Related