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CONTENTS ix<br />

7 Genetics and Genomics <strong>in</strong> the Zebrafish: from Gene to<br />

Function and Back<br />

Stefan Schulte-Merker ................................. 185<br />

7.1 Zebrafish – a model system with utilities beyond<br />

the study of development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185<br />

7.2 Pathway conservation between humans and fish:<br />

what difference do 400 million years make? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186<br />

7.3 The zebrafish tool kit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187<br />

7.4 <strong>Drug</strong> screen<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> zebrafish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192<br />

7.5 Organs <strong>in</strong> color: transgenic zebrafish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193<br />

7.6 Genomic technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194<br />

7.7 Outlook: the future has stripes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197<br />

7.8 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198<br />

7.9 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199<br />

8 Lipid Metabolism and Signal<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Zebrafish<br />

Shiu-Y<strong>in</strong>g Ho, Steven A. Farber and Michael Pack ............ 203<br />

8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203<br />

8.2 Fish as a model organism to study human physiology<br />

and disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204<br />

8.3 Lipid metabolism screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206<br />

8.4 Zebrafish as a model system to study prostanoid<br />

metabolism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212<br />

8.5 Future directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217<br />

8.6 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218<br />

8.7 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218<br />

9 Chemical Mutagenesis <strong>in</strong> the Mouse: a Powerful Tool<br />

<strong>in</strong> <strong>Drug</strong> Target Identification and Validation<br />

Andreas Russ, Neil Dear, Geert Mudde, Gabriele Stumm,<br />

Johannes Grosse, Andreas Schro¨der, Re<strong>in</strong>hard Sedlmeier,<br />

Sigrid Wattler and Michael Nehls ......................... 223<br />

9.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223<br />

9.2 Chemical mutagenesis <strong>in</strong> forward and reverse genetics . . . . . 228<br />

9.3 Reverse genetics by ENU mutagenesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231<br />

9.4 Forward genetics <strong>in</strong> the discovery of new pathways . . . . . . . 235<br />

9.5 The art of screen design: phenotyp<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242<br />

9.6 Industrialized positional clon<strong>in</strong>g. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244<br />

9.7 Conclusions and prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246<br />

9.8 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

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