Endocrine Abstracts

Due to experimental advantages such as its rapid development, transparent embryos, and accessibility for genetic analysis as well as embryonic manipulation, the zebrafish is a useful model organism for research on organogenesis. My lab has established that the basic mechanisms of thyroid development are essentially conserved on the morphological as well as on the molecular level between fish and mammals. We use zebrafish to identify as yet unknown factors involved in thyroid d...