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Zebrafish-General Information
The Zebrafish Model Organism Database (ZFIN-the website of the international zebrafish community)
http://zfin.org/cgi-bin/webdriver?MIval=aa-ZDB_home.apg

Slides-Introduction to zebrafish
http://www.uku.fi/~tnevalai/Zebrafish.pdf

Website-Zebrafish FAQs
http://www.neuro.uoregon.edu/k12/FAQs.html

National Institutes of Health (NIH) zebrafish site
http://www.nih.gov/science/models/zebrafish/

Video-Why Zebrafish?
http://www.biotechlearn.org.nz/themes/cell_biology_and_genetics/dr_love_s_zebrafish/why_zebrafish_v0246/(size)/large

Zebrafish in Education
Website-Zebrafish for K-12 (first zebrafish in education site-more than just for K-12)
http://www.neuro.uoregon.edu/k12/zfk12.html

Website-Project Bioeyes (zebrafish experiments for outreach to elementary school classrooms)
http://www.bioeyes.org/index.php

Website-Biowebconferences (interviews with leaders in the field of developmental biology)
http://sophia.smith.edu/~mbarresi/lab/biowebconferences.html

Website-Insciedout (modules developed by Steve Ekker's laboratory and Rochester, MN public schools)
http://www.insciedout.org/

Journal-Special "Zebrafish in Education" issue of the journal Zebrafish (2009)
http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/zeb/6/2

Journal-2nd Special "Zebrafish in Education" issue of the journal Zebrafish (2012)
http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/zeb/9/4

WT and Mutant Zebrafish
Aquatica Biotech-source of ZDR strain of WT fish that used to be sold by Scientific Hatcheries
1-863-397-2251
http://AquaticaBiotech.com

Image-Zebrafish stages (one cell stage to 48 hours post fertilization)
http://kirbylab.duhs.duke.edu/gifjpg/zebrafish.jpg

Image-Comparison of adult female and male wild type zebrafish https://wiki.med.harvard.edu/pub/SysBio/Megason/CollectingEggs/ZebrafishMaleFemale.jpg

Website-Hopkins lab insertional mutagenesis screen-a good place to learn about identifying mutants.
http://web.mit.edu/hopkins/index.html

Image-Eye phenotypes in Nodal signaling mutants (cyclops, one-eyed pinhead, and schmalspur) http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/images/news/features/zebrafish/mutants/cyclopic_series_2.jpg

Video-Annotated Zebrafish Development Time-lapse (16 cell through late somite stages)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PhnHYZ5-zg

Video-Zebrafish Embryo Development (good for early somite stages)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JW16jdIWiE&feature=related

Figure- Zebrafish Vasculature
http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v3/n9/fig_tab/nrg888_F2.html

Buying, Raising, and Maintaining Zebrafish
Aquatica Tropicals-source of ZDR strain of WT fish that used to be sold by Scientific Hatcheries
1-813-757-0289

Website-Aquaneering (aquatic systems and supplies)
http://www.aquaneering.com

Website-Aquatic Habitats (aquatic systems and supplies)
http://www.aquatichabitats.com/

Website-Zebrafish Husbandry Association
http://www.zhaonline.org/main/

Website-NIH National Center for Research Resources Zebrafish Stock Center
http://zebrafish.org/zirc/home/guide.php

Website-Danios and Devarios (zebrafish are Danios)
http://www.danios.info/index.aspx

Website-Provides information on a good technique for keeping track of zebrafish stocks.
http://www.zfin.org/zf_info/zfbook/chapt1/1.8.html

Video-How to Dechorionate a Zebrafish Embryo (this method only for > 1 day old fish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDUuMwnHRFM

Concepts in Genetics
Video-What are Genes? (Genetics 101 Series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOvMNOMRRm8

Video-What are SNPs? (Genetics 101 Series) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5raJePXu0OQ&feature=PlayList&p=DCB1BDFC68FBA87E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=28

Video-Where do your genes come from? (Genetics 101 Series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJzZ7p-47P8&feature=related

Video-What is Phenotype? (Genetics 101 Series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHWJqzlHl3w

Video-Meiosis (General Overview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdQeKjEsj0U

Video-Mitosis (General Overview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hQ5xXJSmK4

Video-PCR (In-depth Explanation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4L7rvmBXbY

Zebrafish Genetics
Research Article-Synteny Between Zebrafish and Human Genomes: Genome Res. 2000 10: 1351-1358 http://genome.cshlp.org/content/10/9/1351.full.pdf+html

Website-Master genome map including zebrafish chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/maps.cgi?taxid=7955&chr=1

NIH Zebrafish Gene Collection Project-place to find and purchase zebrafish cDNAs
http://zgc.nci.nih.gov/

Research Article-Retroviral Insertional Mutageneis: PNAS 2007 104:12428-33 http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/DIR/Zebrafish-Burgess-071807.pdf

Review Article-Insertional Mutagenesis Strategies in zebrafish: Genome Biol. 2007; 8(Suppl 1): S9 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2106850

Zebrafish-Specific Topics
Article-Zebrafish Evolution
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/060201_zebrafish

Video-Zebrafish Research at Oregon State University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_2ukHJatw

Video- Zebrafish and human eye diseases
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZItgyfuxsfM

Article-Zebrafish and growing new teeth
http://www.tufts.edu/home/feature/?p=zebrafish

Website-Master genome map including of zebrafish chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/maps.cgi?taxid=7955&chr=1

Article-Zebrafish introduction
http://www.new-science-press.com/samples/zebrafish

Research Article-Zebrafish natural history: Zebrafish. 2007 4:21-40.
http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18041940

Video-7 Things You Share With a Zebra Fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF5CG_p1TCw

Video-Zebrafish in Cancer Research: Current research at Indiana State University http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itmcVn9mC3k

Video- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology zebrafish genetics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlmagE9cIHg

Website-Zebrafish Species fact sheet
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=4653

Research Article-Role of Hox and Shh in limb development: Mol. Immun. 2009. 10:1185-1203. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=19365553