Lo zebrafish, Danio rerio, e’ ormai uno dei principali organismi modello per la genomica e la biologia dello sviluppo dei vertebrati, ed e’ stato il terzo pesce ad avere il suo intero genoma sequenziato.
Gli articoli pubblicati in questo volume trattano di argomenti come la posizione filogenetica di Danio rerio all’interno dei cipriniformi (il gruppo che include anche la carpe ed i pesci rossi), l’evoluzione del genoma di Danio, e lo sviluppo di varie strutture morfologiche come le ossa craniche, le mascelle e le pinne.
Gli articoli possono essere letti al sito
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/116317195

Ecco il sommario:
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, Volume 308B, Issue 5 (15 September 2007)

Considering the zebrafish in a comparative context (p 515-522)
Thomas F. Schilling, Jacqueline Webb

Zebrafish dentition in comparative context (p 523-549)
David W. Stock

The utility of zebrafish for studies of the comparative biology of motor systems (p 550-562)
Joseph R. Fetcho

The zebrafish genome in context: ohnologs gone missing (p 563-577)
John H. Postlethwait

Homology and the evolution of novelty during /Danio/ adult pigment pattern development (p 578-590)
David M. Parichy

Evolution of gastrulation in the ray-finned (actinopterygian) fishes (p 591-608)
Mark S. Cooper, Valerie C. Virta

Morphing the hyomandibular skeleton in development and evolution (p 609-624)
Charles B. Kimmel, Macie B. Walker, Craig T. Miller

Using zebrafish to investigate cypriniform evolutionary novelties: functional development and evolutionary diversification of the kinethmoid (p 625-641)
L. Patricia Hernandez, Nathan Craig Bird, Katie Lynn Staab

Phylogenetic relationships of /Danio/ within the order Cypriniformes: a framework for comparative and evolutionary studies of a model species (p 642-654)
Richard L. Mayden, Kevin L. Tang, Kevin W. Conway, Jörg Freyhof, Sarah
Chamberlain, Miranda Haskins, Leah Schneider, Mitchell Sudkamp, Robert
M. Wood, Mary Agnew, Angelo Bufalino, Zohrah Sulaiman, Masaki Miya,
Kenji Saitoh, Shunping He

Connecting evolutionary morphology to genomics using ontologies: a case study from Cypriniformes including zebrafish (p 655-668)
Paula M. Mabee, Gloria Arratia, Miles Coburn, Melissa Haendel, Eric J.
Hilton, John G. Lundberg, Richard L. Mayden, Nelson Rios, Monte Westerfield

Selective asymmetry in a conserved forebrain to midbrain projection (p 669-678)
Yung-Shu Kuan, Joshua T. Gamse, Alexander M. Schreiber, Marnie E. Halpern

Tfap2 transcription factors in zebrafish neural crest development and ectodermal evolution (p 679-691)
Trevor L. Hoffman, Anna L. Javier, Shelley A. Campeau, Robert D. Knight,

Francesco Santini