Talk:Zebrafish

message: I think i just saw my zebra danio (male) eat a neon tetra. This could be its second, since I lost another a week ago, plus a small zebra danio has gone missing. Does anyone know if this is common behaviour for a zebra danio? If so I might need to kill it to save my other fish.¨
-> Zebrafish do commonly eat other fish who are dead or even dying, but I've never seen one attack a healthy fish.
I think the temperature range stated in the article is wrong - zebrafish prefer a range of about 24-28C, as far as I know. 28 is about optimal; 18 is too low. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 137.122.149.57 (talk • contribs) 12:16, 8 June 2006  (UTC-7)
This image claims these fish change color - has anyone observed that?  Could information be added to the article? 
--70.112.222.14 19:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, they do (as do pretty much all fish), see chromatophore. I have added the image to the article. Rockpocket 07:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I suggest moving this page to zebrafish.  Currently zebrafish is a disambiguation page with only two links: red lionfish and this page.
* The red lionfish only lives in Australia, and I believe it is known by several other common names.
* D. rerio is a both a popular aquarium fish worldwide and an important model organism.  Even in academia, D. rerio seems to be mainly referred to as "zebrafish" (going by my own observations as an Australian genetics student).
Therefore I think most wikipedia users who search for "zebrafish" would be wanting this page, so we should send them here directly.  I've put a disambig note at the top of this page which directs to the red lionfish page.  I've temporarily moved the zebrafish disambig page to "zebrafish 2", but I still can't move this page to "zebrafish" because the old disambig page still exists as a redirect.  I'm looking for an administrator who can help by deleting both the "zebrafish" and the "zebrafish 2" pages.  I can then move this page and fix all the links over the weekend.  Adrian J. Hunter 15:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest move to "zebrafish"

message: of the little bugger.  what it eats, how long it lives.  where it lays its eggs.  mating behavior?  interactions with other critters in its environment...Wikiskimmer 06:47, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  for such a biologically important fish and fun aquaruim pet , i'd like to see some basic natural history 

message: Can someone explain why the fish is sometimes referred to as Brachydanio rerio, and why sometimes just Danio rerio?  Can you add this to the page?  Thanks MrPMonday (talk) 02:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: The successful zebrafish developmental model has now expanded to being used as a model for the analysis of
host–pathogen interactions during infectious disease. Numerous pathogens have been demonstrated to infect zebrafish and new mechanisms of virulence, as well as host defense have been uncovered using this new model.  Successful infection of zebrafish has been demonstrated using a variety of pathogens including the zoonotic fish pathogens Mycobacterium marinum, Edwardsiella tarda, Salmonella arizonae, Vibrio anguillarum, and Streptococcus iniae.  Furthermore, infection of zebrafish has been successfully demonstrated with pathogens that are not known to infect fish such as Salmonella typhimurium, Bacillus subtillis, Escherichia coli, multiple species of Listeria, Streptococcus agalactiae (M.N. Neely and D.R. Runft, unpublished data) and Streptococcus pyogenes. Snakehead rhabdovirus, a virus that infects warm-water fish, was also used for zebrafish infection to analyze upregulation of multiple host proteins involved in the immune response.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZebrafishPathogenesis (talk • contribs) 06:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should a section "model organism for pathogenesis" be added?  Taken from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18248169 with slight modification: 

message: can someone make my list of WT strains into columns or something? Im a little new at the formatting :)
Dmu13 (talk) 19:13, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Despite the warning at Help:Columns, this looks fine on my version of Internet Explorer (Version 7). Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 14:25, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: WT strains

message: I think there should be an article on this species as a model organism. This page isn't the best place to go into much detail on this aspect, as it's likely to be quite technical and there's clearly heaps of information on the subject from a range of different fields of biology. I think a longer article on this topic with a shorter summary section here would be ideal. Richard001 (talk) 00:03, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Whether in an article or here, it might to good to add situations where zebra fish (danio) don't work. I run into this a lot in my readings on paleontology and molecular genetics. Danio might be good for medical research, but for understanding vertebrate evolution it's a bad a chichlids. Zyxwv99 (talk) 23:59, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Zebrafish as a model organism]] 

message: As of 8:53 PM Feb. 4 2012, the links to the article in other languages are all red and appear at the bottom of the page instead of in the sidebar.  Something is wrong!
65.110.254.148 (talk) 02:54, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to other languages not displaying correctly 

message: I am fairly certain that zebrafish prefer temperature cooler than 22–28 °C (72–82 °F), i.e. somewhere between 18 and 25 °C. Is there a source that confirms I'm wrong and the article is right? Surtsicna (talk) 23:13, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Optimal temperature 

message: A citation is necesarry for this sentence under the section headings In Medical Research, Cancer: "Zebrafish have been used to make several transgenic models of cancer, including melanoma, leukemia, pancreatic cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma."This is certainly not common knowledge. A citation, along with more information about how and why zebrafish are used to make these transgenic models should be added or the section should be deleted. 
Curtis Bixenstine (talk) 03:18, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed  

message: I was wondering about renaming the article. Zebrafish can refer to at least three species of fish. In the aquarium hobby, they are more commonly known as zebra danios. And this is the only place that I have seen them refereed to as zebra fish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GouramiGirl (talk • contribs) 04:28, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming Article? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: *caravanmagazine.in/lede/gene-pool-native-subcontinental-fish-helps-genetic-research ∯WBGconverse 14:22, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source 

message: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-fin-limb-mutations-zebrafish-fins.html
this article recently came out (paper here) detailing a study conducted at Harvard showing that the activation of a single gene in a zebrafish's genome results in the development of new bones, joints, and muscles into a limb-like structure. In a goddamn ray-finned fish, no less.
Honestly, I don't think I'm quite...qualified to add something of this sort to the article, given my lack of in-depth knowledge of biology. I'm just dropping this here for folks who may wish to edit this new research into the article to mull over and consider.
Cheers.
DownAirStairsConditioner (talk) 23:22, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zebrafish genetics; limb study 

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