The inch-long, striped tropical zebrafish (Danio rerio), long a fixture in aquariums, has also evolved over the past ten years to become a staple in comparative genomics—the use of model organisms to identify homologs of human genes linked to disease processes.
Other model organisms, such as the worm C. elegansand the fly Drosophila, do not possess many of the complex organ systems found in higher organisms. The zebrafish, on the other...
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