Overview
The first book to cover the expanding research on medaka
Describes recent progress in the field and provides a good introduction of this fish system along with information on the long history of medaka in Japanese culture and science
Biological and genome resources are listed with accessible web sites, especially helpful for new researchers in the field
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Genomics, Genetics, and Resources
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Organogenesis and Disease Models
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Germ Cells, Sex Determination, and Reproduction
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About this book
Oryzias latipes, known as medaka, is a model organism from East Asia. Breeding of this small, egg-laying freshwater teleost fish has long been popular among hobbyists in Japan. Now, as biological science has entered the genome era, the medaka provides significant advantages that make it one of the most valuable vertebrate models: a large collection of spontaneous mutants collected over a century, the presence of highly polymorphic inbred lines established over decades, and a recently completed genome sequence. This book is the first comprehensive monograph to cover a variety of medaka research. It opens with a historical view of medaka, followed by a series of research topics in the four major areas where the medaka is increasingly important: genomics, genetics, and resources; organogenesis and disease models; germ cells, sex determination, and reproduction; and evolution. Readers will find state-of-the-art information on medaka genetics and genomics such as the first isolation of active transposons in vertebrates, the influence of chromatin structure on sequence variation, fine QTL analysis, and versatile mutants as human disease models.
Reviews
“In view of the abundance of the topics treated in this volume, the state-of-the-art information on Medaka genetics and genomics, the meaningful figures and diagrams (many are suitable for teachings), and the wealth of references, this volume is surely a ‘must’ for those working with this model organism, but it is also recommended to all researches interested in fish biology.” (Hartmut Greven, Bulletin of Fish Biology, Vol. 15, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Medaka
Book Subtitle: A Model for Organogenesis, Human Disease, and Evolution
Editors: Kiyoshi Naruse, Minoru Tanaka, Hiroyuki Takeda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-92691-7
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-92690-0Published: 20 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54707-5Published: 12 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-92691-7Published: 30 May 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 387
Topics: Animal Models, Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Transgenics, Animal Genetics and Genomics