Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a teleost fish, common in home aquarium. This animal has emerged as a powerful model organism for studies of vertebrate development, diseases, biological pathways, toxicology mechanisms and organ regeneration. The adult teleost fish has the capacity to regenerate several organs, including their appendages, optic nerve, heart, spinal cord. These organs display poor reg...

It is now recognized that several rounds of whole genome duplication (WGD) have occurred during the evolution of vertebrates, but the link between WGDs and phenotypic diversification remains unsolved. We have investigated in this study the impact of the teleost-specific WGD on the evolution of the sox gene family in teleostean fishes. The sox gene family, which encodes for transcription factors...

BACKGROUND MyoD is a muscle specific transcription factor that is essential for vertebrate myogenesis. In several teleost species, including representatives of the Salmonidae and Acanthopterygii, but not zebrafish, two or more MyoD paralogues are conserved that are thought to have arisen from distinct, possibly lineage-specific duplication events. Additionally, two MyoD paralogues have been cha...

Skin homeostasis is critical to preserve animal integrity. Although the skin of most vertebrates is known to contain a skin-associated lymphoid tissue (SALT), very little is known about skin B-cell responses as well as their evolutionary origins. Teleost fish represent the most ancient bony vertebrates containing a SALT. Due to its lack of keratinization, teleost skin possesses living epithelia...

Within vertebrates, teleost fishes provide a rich evolutionary context for studying the mechanisms of dental divergence because of the numerous axes along which their teeth have diverged phenotypically and presumably developmentally. Using both a review of teleost in situ hybridization and de novo transcriptome sequencing in a cichlid fish, we examined whether 341 gene homologs thought to play ...

Traditionally, brain and behavior evolution was viewed as an anagenetic process that occurred in successive stages of increasing complexity and advancement. Fishes, considered the most primitive vertebrates, were supposed to have a scarcely differentiated telencephalon, and limited learning capabilities. However, recent developmental, neuroanatomical, and functional data indicate that the evolu...

background: this investigation describes the cyto-architectural alterations observed in the corpuscles of stannius of stinging catfish heteropneustes fossilis after treatment with a botanical pesticide nerium indicum. methods: heteropneustes fossilis were subjected to 11.27 and 2.81 mg/l of nerium indicum leaf extract over short- and long-term exposure periods, respectively. blood was collected...