Count your somites! To make a vertebra, it takes 120 minutes in mice, 90 minutes in chicks, 30 minutes in zebrafish, and ~4.5 hours in humans. #ZebrafishFunFacts

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Flipbook of zebrafish embryogenesis. Taken from December 1996 issue of @Dev_journal. Still images from movie by Rolf Karlstrom and Don Kane. Flipping credit to @amjeve. #ZebrafishZunday #ZebrafishFunFacts

Did you know the last common ancestor of #zebrafish and humans was ~450 million years ago? A whole genome duplication event (3R) occurred early in the teleost fish phylogeny. Despite this event, zebrafish and humans have about the same number of chromosomes. #ZebrafishFunFacts

How do you say #zebrafish?

👩‍🔬 Danio rerio
🇪🇸 Pez cebra
🇩🇪 Zebrabärbling
🇫🇷 Poisson-zèbre
🇫🇮 Seeprakalan
🇸🇪 Zebrafisk
🇯🇵 ゼブラフィッシュ
🇨🇳 斑马鱼
🇰🇷 제브라 피쉬
🇻🇳 Cá ngựa vằn
🇷🇺 Да́нио-ре́рио
🇬🇷 Ψάρι ζέβρα
🇮🇳 ज़ेबरा मछली.
🇮🇷 گورخرماهی
🇪🇬 سمك الزرد
🇮🇱 דג הזברה
🇧🇷 Peixe zebra
🇷🇴 Peşte zebră
🇹🇼 斑馬魚
🇳🇿 zubrafush
🇷🇸 Zebrica
🇮🇹 Pesce zebra
🇹🇷 Zebra balığı
🇨🇿 Zebřička
🇳🇱 Zebravis
🇭🇺 Zabrahal
🎣 Zebra danio
Autocorrect Zebra fish
Emoji 🦓🐟

#ZebrafishFunFacts

Did you know #zebrafish can change sex as adults? Females that no longer produce oocytes can readily convert to a male, both phenotypically and behaviorally. To read more on this topic, check out this 2013 paper by Prof. Bruce Draper at UC Davis (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160613000341?via%3Dihub) #ZebrafishFunFacts

Did you know? #Zebrafish are more closely related to fish than to zebras. #ZebrafishFunFacts

Welcome to @ZebrafishRock! We cover highlights of all things zebrafish. Use this toot to connect with the community!

New to zebrafish? Read this: https://irp.nih.gov/blog/post/2016/08/why-use-zebrafish-to-study-human-diseases

Community: #zebrafish
Questions: #AskZebrafish
Jobs: #ZebrafishJobs
Events: #ZebrafishMeeting
Monthly recap: #DanioDigest
SciArt: #ZebrafishZunday
Features: #SpotlightZebrafish
Trivia: #ZebrafishFunFacts
Games: #GuessThatISH
Fish models: #TeleostTalk
Human models: #KnowYourZDM
Merchandise: #ZebrafishGear

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Welcome to @ZebrafishRock! We cover highlights of all things zebrafish. Use this toot to connect with the community!

New to zebrafish? Read this: https://irp.nih.gov/blog/post/2016/08/why-use-zebrafish-to-study-human-diseases

Community: #zebrafish

?s: #AskZebrafish

Jobs: #ZebrafishJobs

Events: #ZebrafishMeeting

Monthly recap: #DanioDigest

#SciArt: #ZebrafishZunday

Features: #SpotlightZebrafish

Trivia: #ZebrafishFunFacts

Games: #GuessThatISH

Fish models: #TeleostTalk

Human models: #KnowYourZDM

Merchandise: #ZebrafishGear