Genetics, Genomics and Fish Phenomics

by Elsevier Science

Overview

Genetics, Genomics and Fish Phenomics provides the latest information on the rapidly evolving field of genetics, presenting new medical breakthroughs that are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of genetics.

The book continually publishes important reviews of the broadest interest to geneticists and their colleagues in affiliated disciplines, critically analyzing future directions, with hhis volume focusing on genetics, genomics, and phenomics of fish.

• Includes a critical analysis of future directions for the study of clinical genetics
• Written and edited by recognized leaders in the field
• Presents new medical breakthroughs that are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of genetics

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128052167
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/05/2016
Series:	ISSN , #95
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	36 MB
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About the Author

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Table of Contents

1. Studying the Evolution of the Vertebrate Circadian Clock: The Power of Fish as Comparative Models
Nicholas S. Foulkes, David Whitmore, Daniela Vallone and Cristiano Bertolucci
2. Genomic and Transcriptomic Approaches to Study Cancer in Small Aquarium Fish Models
Janine Regneri, Barbara Klotz and Manfred Schartl
3. Gal4 Driver Transgenic Zebrafish: Powerful Tools to Study Developmental Biology, Organogenesis and Neuroscience
Koichi Kawakami, Kazuhide Asakawa, Masahiko Hibi, Motoyuki Itoh, Akira Muto and Hironori Wada
4. Towards a Systems Approach to Whole-organism Soft Tissue Phenomics in Zebrafish
Keith C. Cheng, Spencer Katz, Alex Y. Lin, Xuying Xin and Yifu Ding
5. Evolutionary Genetics of the Cavefish Astyanax mexicanus
Didier Casane and Sylvie Rétaux
6. Transcriptional Regulation During Zygotic Genome Activation in Zebrafish and Other Anamniote Embryos
Joseph Wragg and Ferenc Mueller
7. The Zebrafish as Model for Deciphering the Regulatory Architecture of Vertebrate Genomes
Sepand Rastegar and Uwe Strähle
8. Transcriptomic Approaches in the Zebrafish Model for Tuberculosis – Insights Into Host- and Pathogen-Specific Determinants of the Innate Immune Response
Erica L. Benard, Julien Rougeot, Peter I. Racz, Herman P. Spaink and Annemarie H. Meijer

Editorial Reviews

"The authors nicely synthesize a rapidly growing literature on the genetics and genomics of adaptive evolution in this species." —Quarterly Review of Biology

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