Zebrafish Rock! · @ZebrafishRock
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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.

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Andrea Pauli · @PauliGroup
163 followers · 128 posts · Server mstdn.science

RT @ZebrafishRock
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.

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Zebrafish Rock! · @ZebrafishRock
149 followers · 8 posts · Server mstdn.social

Did you know the last common ancestor of 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.

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Last updated 2 years ago

Zebrafish Rock! · @ZebrafishRock
149 followers · 6 posts · Server mstdn.social

How do you say ?

👩‍🔬 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 🦓🐟

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Last updated 2 years ago

Zebrafish Rock! · @ZebrafishRock
49 followers · 3 posts · Server mstdn.social

Did you know 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 (sciencedirect.com/science/arti)

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Zebrafish Rock! · @ZebrafishRock
48 followers · 2 posts · Server mstdn.social

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

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Last updated 2 years ago

Zebrafish Rock! · @ZebrafishRock
8 followers · 1 posts · Server mstdn.social

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

New to zebrafish? Read this: irp.nih.gov/blog/post/2016/08/

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Zebrafish Rock! · @ZebrafishRock
8 followers · 1 posts · Server mstdn.social