Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state ...

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has been a favorite model of developmental biologists and geneticists, but only recently have investigators begun to appreciate its usefulness in behavior genetics. Papers ...

What is the common ground between making a cup of tea and putting on your shoes? Both actions consist of several movements in a row. "Just like language, which is composed of syllables arranged into ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- July 26, 2018 -- University of Oregon scientists have identified brain cells vital to how zebrafish socialize. When the neurons are disabled, their orientation to one another breaks ...

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University of Utah researchers have found that the small tropical zebrafish, which shares 70 percent of its genes with humans, chooses to self-administer doses of the commonly prescribed pain-killing ...

In a set of experiments, researchers examined emotional contagion in social zebrafish. The results have big implications for the roots of empathy. Reading time 6 minutes You may have heard that ‘fish ...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Harvard University have co-developed a system that captures on video and barcodes the behavioral responses of zebrafish to chemical compounds on ...

Environmental conditions strongly affect experimental animals. As a model organism, zebrafish has become important in life science studies. However, the potential effect of living environment on their ...

The curved shape of a zebrafish egg causes unequal cell divisions, creating larger cells near the animal pole and smaller ...

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