Medaka: A Model for Organogenesis, Human Disease, and Evolution

by Kiyoshi Naruse

Book Overview

Oryzias latipes, known as medaka, is a model organism from East Asia. Breeding of this small, egg-laying freshwater teleost fish has long been popular among hobbyists in Japan. Now, as biological science has entered the genome era, the medaka provides significant advantages that make it one of the most valuable vertebrate models: a large collection of spontaneous mutants collected over a century, the presence of highly polymorphic inbred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 443154707X
• ISBN13: 9784431547075
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"