Endocrine Abstracts

In the last decades, the tropical teleost zebrafish (Danio rerio) has proved to be an excellent vertebrate system to model mammalian molecular events occurring during embryonic development, organ formation and adult physiology, either under normal or pathological conditions. Low costs and small dimensions, external fertilization and high fecundity, tissue transparency, rapid development, availability of mutant and transgenic lines, easy manipulability for gene perturb...