Medaka
Subtitle: a model for organogenesis, human disease, and evolution
By: Kiyoshi Naruse, Minoru Tanaka, Hiroyuki Takeda, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9784431926900; 9784431926917
Subjects: Genetics; Diseases; Molecular Evolution; Functional genomics; Organogenesis; Fish as laboratory animals; Animal Disease Models; Animal models; Oryzias; Oryzias latipes; Laboratory Animals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A glance at the past of medaka fish biology / Hiroshi Hori; title: Genetics, genomics, and biological resources in the medaka, Oryzias latipes / Kiyoshi Naruse; title: Chromatin-associated periodicity in genetic variation downstream of transcriptional start sites / Shin Sasaki ... [et al.]; title: Transposable elements Tol1 and Tol2 / Akihiko Koga; title: A systematic screen for mutations affecting organogenesis in medaka / Makoto Furutani-Seiki; title: Medaka bone development / Akira Kudo; title: Anatomical atlas of blood vascular system of medaka / Sumio Isogai and Misato Fujita; title: Kidney development, regeneration, and polycystic kidney disease in medaka / Hisashi Hashimoto; title: Primary ciliary dyskinesia in fish : the analysis of a novel medaka mutant kintoun / Daisuke Kobayashi and Hiroyuki Takeda; title: p53-deficient medaka created by TILLING / Yoshihito Taniguchi; title: Medaka spontaneous mutants for body coloration / Shoji Fukamachi; title: Craniofacial traits / Minori Shinya; title: Double anal fin (Da) : a medaka mutant exhibiting a mirror-image pattern duplication of the dorsal-ventral axis / Masato Ohtsuka, Hiroyuki Takeda, and Atsuko Shimada; title: Interaction of germ cells and gonadal somatic cells during gonadal formation / Minoru Tanaka; title: Frequent turnover of sex chromosomes in the medaka fishes / Yusuke Takehana; title: Function of the medaka male sex-determining gene / Manfred Schartl; title: The sex-determining gene in medaka / Masaru Matsuda; title: Endocrine regulation of oogenesis in the medaka, Oryzias latipes / Naoki Shibata ... [et al.]; title: Interspecific medaka hybrids as experimental models for investigating cell division and germ cell development / Toshiharu Iwai ... [et al.]; title: Reconstruction of the vertebrate ancestral genome reveals dynamic genome reorganization in early vertebrates / Yoichiro Nakatani ... [et al.]; title: Genome duplication and subfunction partitioning : Sox9 in medaka and other vertebrates / Hayato Yokoi and John H. Postlethwait; title: Human population genetics meets medaka / Hiroki Oota and Hiroshi Mitani; title: Evolution of the major histocompatibility complex : a lesson from the Oryzias species / Masaru Nonaka and Kentaro Tsukamoto; title: Molecular evolution of teleostean hatching enzymes and their egg envelope digestion mechanism : an aspect of co-evolution of protease and substrate / Shigeki Yasumasu, Kaori Sano, and Mari Kawaguchi.