Danio rerio
Sign in to saveThe zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a species of danionin belonging to the genus Danio in the suborder Cyprinoidei. Native to South Asia, it is a popular, hardy aquarium fish, frequently sold under the trade name zebra danio (thus often mislabeled as a "tropical fish", even though they also inhabit subtropical and temperate waters).
Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCypriniformes
- FamilyCyprinidae
Habitatfreshwater
via GBIF · IUCN
Research
66,633 papers- Haematopoiesis in Zebrafish (Danio Rerio).Frontiers in immunology · 2022
- Zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a Model for Understanding the Process of Caudal Fin Regeneration.Zebrafish · 2020
- Zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model to assess the effects of cocaine as a drug of abuse and its environmental implications.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023
- Modeling leukemia with zebrafish (Danio rerio): Towards precision medicine.Experimental cell research · 2022
- The Role and Mechanisms of the Hypocretin System in Zebrafish (Danio rerio).International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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Article
51 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Distribution
- Range
- Habitats
- Description
- Reproduction
- Feeding
- In the aquarium
- Strains
- Wild-type strains
- Hybrids
- Scientific research
- Model characteristics
- Regeneration
- Genetics
- Background genetics
- Gene expression
- Genome sequencing
- Mitochondrial DNA
- Developmental genetics
- Pigmentation genes
- Transgenesis
- Transparent adult bodies
- RNA splicing
- Orthology
- Inbreeding depression
- Aquaculture research
- Neurochemistry
- DNA repair
- Psychology
- Drug discovery and development
- Drug screens
- Toxico- or pharmacokinetics
- Computational data analysis
- Medical research
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular disease
- Immune system
- Infectious diseases
- Repairing retinal damage
- Muscular dystrophies
- Bone physiology and pathology
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Environmental toxicology
- Neurobiology
- Epilepsy
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a species of danionin belonging to the genus Danio in the suborder Cyprinoidei. Native to South Asia, it is a popular, hardy aquarium fish, frequently sold under the trade name zebra danio (thus often mislabeled as a "tropical fish", even though they also inhabit subtropical and temperate waters).
The zebrafish is extensively used as a vertebrate model organism in scientific research, particularly developmental biology, but also gene function, oncology, teratology, and drug development, in particular pre-clinical development, due to its scalability from high numbers of offspring and ease of drug delivery through water into the gills. It is also notable for its regenerative abilities, and has been modified by researchers to produce many transgenic strains.