Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

Adult zebrafish as a model organism for behavioural genetics

W Norton, L Bally-Cuif - BMC neuroscience, 2010 - Springer
Recent research has demonstrated the suitability of adult zebrafish to model some aspects
of complex behaviour. Studies of reward behaviour, learning and memory, aggression …

Linking genes to brain, behavior and neurological diseases: what can we learn from zebrafish?

S Guo - Genes, Brain and Behavior, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
How our brain is wired and subsequently generates functional output, ranging from sensing
and locomotion to emotion, decision‐making and learning and memory, remains poorly …

Neuronal subtype-specific genes that control corticospinal motor neuron development in vivo

P Arlotta, BJ Molyneaux, J Chen, J Inoue, R Kominami… - Neuron, 2005 - cell.com
Within the vertebrate nervous system, the presence of many different lineages of neurons
and glia complicates the molecular characterization of single neuronal populations. In order …

Fezl is required for the birth and specification of corticospinal motor neurons

BJ Molyneaux, P Arlotta, T Hirata, M Hibi, JD Macklis - Neuron, 2005 - cell.com
The molecular mechanisms controlling the differentiation of neural progenitors into distinct
subtypes of neurons during neocortical development are unknown. Here, we report that Fezl …

Fezl regulates the differentiation and axon targeting of layer 5 subcortical projection neurons in cerebral cortex

B Chen, LR Schaevitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
During the development of the cerebral cortex, progenitor cells produce neurons that
migrate to laminar positions appropriate for their birth dates, adopt specific neuronal …

Molecular psychiatry of zebrafish

AM Stewart, JFP Ullmann, WHJ Norton, MO Parker… - Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
Due to their well-characterized neural development and high genetic homology to
mammals, zebrafish (Danio rerio) have emerged as a powerful model organism in the field …

An injury-induced serotonergic neuron subpopulation contributes to axon regrowth and function restoration after spinal cord injury in zebrafish

CX Huang, Y Zhao, J Mao, Z Wang, L Xu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) interrupts long-projecting descending spinal neurons and disrupts
the spinal central pattern generator (CPG) that controls locomotion. The intrinsic …

Development of the hypothalamus: conservation, modification and innovation

Y **e, RI Dorsky - Development, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
The hypothalamus, which regulates fundamental aspects of physiological homeostasis and
behavior, is a brain region that exhibits highly conserved anatomy across vertebrate …

Can zebrafish be used as a model to study the neurodevelopmental causes of autism?

V Tropepe, HL Sive - Genes, Brain and Behavior, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The zebrafish has proven to be an excellent model for analyzing issues of vertebrate
development. In this review we ask whether the zebrafish is a viable model for analyzing the …