PUBLICATION

Mayo Clinic Zebrafish Facility Overview

Authors
Leveque, R.E., Clark, K.J., Ekker, S.C.
ID
ZDB-PUB-160330-2
Date
2016
Source
Zebrafish   13 Suppl 1: S44-6 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Clark, Karl, Ekker, Stephen C.
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animal Husbandry/methods*
  • Animal Husbandry/organization & administration
  • Animals
  • Animals, Laboratory*
  • Aquaculture/methods*
  • Aquaculture/organization & administration
  • Facility Design and Construction*
  • Minnesota
  • Models, Animal
  • Zebrafish*
PubMed
27023741 Full text @ Zebrafish
Abstract
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a premier nonmammalian vertebrate model organism. This small aquatic fish is utilized in multiple disciplines in the Mayo Clinic community and by many laboratories around the world because of its biological similarity to humans, its advanced molecular genetics, the elucidation of its genome sequence, and the ever-expanding and outstanding new biological tools now available to the zebrafish researcher. The Mayo Clinic Zebrafish Facility (MCZF) houses ∼2,000 tanks annotated using an in-house, Internet cloud-based bar-coding system tied to our established zfishbook.org web infrastructure. Paramecia are the primary food source for larval fish rearing, using a simplified culture protocol described herein. The MCZF supports the specific ongoing research in a variety of laboratories, while also serving as a local hub for new scientists as they learn to tap into the potential of this model system for understanding normal development, disease, and as models of health.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping