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Zebrafish Models of Human Skeletal Disorders: Embryo and Adult Swimming Together.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2019
Carnovali Marta, Banfi Giuseppe, Mariotti Massimo
Abstract excerpt
Danio rerio (zebrafish) is an elective model organism for the study of vertebrate development because of its high degree of homology with human genes and organs, including bone. Zebrafish embryos, because of the optical clarity, small size, and fast development, can be easily used in large-scale mutagenesis experiments to isolate mutants with developmental skeletal defects and in high-throughput screenings to...
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