title: Advancing biology through a deeper understanding of zebrafish ecology and evolution.
abstract: Over the last two decades, the zebrafish has joined the ranks of premier model organisms for biomedical research, with a full suite of tools and genomic resources. Yet we still know comparatively little about its natural history. Here I review what is known about the natural history of the zebrafish, where significant gaps in our knowledge remain, and how a fuller appreciation of this organism's ecology and behavior, population genetics, and phylogeny can inform a variety of research endeavors.
authors: Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, United States.
authors: David M
authors: DM
authors: Parichy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001459:Bangladesh; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005843:Geography; D007194:India; D009390:Nepal; D010802:Phylogeny; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development*
keywords: behavior; ecology; evolutionary biology; genomics; phylogeny; pigment pattern; population genetics; sex determination; the natural history of model organisms; zebrafish