Plenty more fish in the sea: comparative and functional genomics using teleost models.

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Biology has collaborated with evolution to create an enormous repertoire of animal variation. This in turn has provided experimental biologists with models that can be used in the lab to simulate more complex systems. Amongst the organisms that have been used in this way are fish, where a large number of species have been utilised in a variety of different ways. Fish possess the smallest genomes of any vertebrate, making them ideal as models for genome analysis and gene discovery. Fish are also easy to maintain in a laboratory environment and can be bred easily. Fish often have well-defined physiology and respond well to many experimental procedures. Finally, fish are of great economic importance in their own right, as one of the world's largest sources of protein. In this review, the relationship between fish species is examined along with the role of different fish models in a wide range of biological disciplines.

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Elgar, G. (2004). Plenty more fish in the sea: comparative and functional genomics using teleost models. Briefings in Functional Genomics & Proteomics, 3(1), 15–25. https://doi.org/10.1093/bfgp/3.1.15

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