The zebrafish is a premier model organism yet lacks a system for assigning postembryonic
fish to developmental stages. To provide such a staging series, we describe postembryonic …

Developmental mechanisms underlying traits expressed in larval and adult vertebrates remain
largely unknown. Pigment patterns of fishes provide an opportunity to identify genes and …

Skin pigment patterns of vertebrates are a classic system for understanding fundamental
mechanisms of morphogenesis, differentiation, and pattern formation, and recent studies of …

Vertebrate pigment cells are derived from neural crest cells and are a useful system for studying
neural crest-derived traits during post-embryonic development. In zebrafish, neural crest-…

Experimental analysis of gut microbial communities and their interactions with vertebrate
hosts is conducted predominantly in domesticated animals that have been maintained in …

The zebrafish, Danio rerio, has emerged as a major model organism for biomedical
research, yet little is known about its natural history. We review the literature pertaining to the …

The relative roles of the Kit receptor in promoting the migration and survival of amniote
melanocytes are unresolved. We show that, in the zebrafish, Danio rerio, the pigment pattern …

How social aggregations arise and persist is central to our understanding of evolution,
behavior, and psychology [1–3]. When social groups arise within a species, evolutionary …

The zebrafish has become a major model system for biomedical research and is an emerging
model for the study of behaviour. Although adult zebrafish express a visually mediated …

Pigment patterns of fishes are a tractable system for studying the genetic and cellular bases
for postembryonic phenotypes. In the zebrafish Danio rerio, neural crest-derived pigment …