Advancing biology through a deeper understanding of zebrafish ecology and evolution.
review · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 25807087.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.05635 and PMC identifier 4373672.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Over the last two decades, the zebrafish has joined the ranks of premier model organisms for biomedical research, with a full suite of tools and genomic resources. Yet we still know comparatively little about its natural history. Here I review what is known about the natural history of the zebrafish, where significant gaps in our knowledge remain, and how a fuller appreciation of this organism's ecology and behavior, population genetics, and phylogeny can inform a variety of research endeavors.
Medical subject headings
- Ecology
- Ecosystem
- Phylogeny
- Zebrafish