稀有鮈鲫--一种新的鱼类实验动物

鱼类作为低等脊椎动物的代表和水生态系统的代表 ,具有繁育力强、体外受精、体外发育、胚体透明等特点 ,过去一直是胚胎学、遗传学、水毒理学、行为科学、环境科学等领域常用的材料。自从Streisinger关于斑马鱼人工雌核发育及纯系建立的文章在Nature上发表后 ,以斑马鱼、青为代表的鱼类很快成为了实验动物的“新宠” ,并在发育遗传学、环境科学领域的研究中扮演了越来越重要的角色。我国从 2 0世纪 90年代开始先后进行了稀有鲫、剑尾鱼、红鲫等鱼类的实验动物化研究 ,并于 2 0 0 1年成立了中国实验动物学会水生实验动物专业委员会。稀…

Rare Minnoe:A New Laboratory Animal in China

As representative member of low-class vertebrate and aquatic ecosystem, fishes have high breeding ability with eggs external tertilized and transparent embryos developing synchronously outside the mother. They are used in researches of embryology, enetics, aquatic toxicology, behavioral science and environmental science. Ever since George using experimental gynogenesis method was published in nature in 1981, zebra fish, medaka and other fishes became favorite laboratory animals and played more and more important roles in the studies of genetics and environmental science. In 1990s, Chinese researchers began studying on rare minnow, swordtail, red crucian carp and other fishes as laboratory animals; consequently, a professional subgroup of Chinese Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences named Society of Experimental Aquatic Animal was set up in 2001 to promote researcher in this area.