Fish, and particularly zebrafish, have become the fastest-growing segment of the research population. They offer several advantages, in terms of biology and technologies to apply, and thus are employed in numerous research fields. Laboratory Fish in Biomedical Research: Biology, Husbandry and Research Applications for Zebrafish, Medaka, Killifish, Swordtail Fish, Cavefish, Stickleback, Goldfish and Danionella Translucida addresses the relevant and increasing need to collect cutting-edge knowledge on husbandry, maintenance, welfare and experimental protocols of the most common freshwater species under standard laboratory conditions

Table of contents :
1. Biology and research applications
2. Housing and maintenance of zebrafish, new technologies in laboratory aquatic systems and considerations for facility design
3. Breeding and larviculture of zebrafish (Danio rerio)
4. Health monitoring, disease, and clinical pathology
5. The welfare of zebrafish
6. Analgesia, anesthesia, and euthanasia in zebrafish
7. Transgenesis, mutagenesis, knockdown, and genetic colony management
8. Sperm cryopreservation, in vitro fertilization, and embryo freezing
9. Medaka as a model teleost: characteristics and approaches of genetic modification
10. Integrated analyses using medaka as a powerful model animal toward understanding various aspects of reproductive regulation
11. The African turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri): biology and research applications
12. Challenges in keeping annual killifish
13. Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus): biology, husbandry, and experimental protocols
14. The housing, care, and use of a laboratory three-spined stickleback colony
15. Goldfish (Carassius auratus): biology, husbandry, and research applications
16. Danionella translucida, a tankful of new opportunities
17. Fish inventory databases

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