zebra fish

noun

: any of various barred fishes

especially : a very small blue-and-silver-striped Indian danio (Danio rerio synonym Brachydanio rerio) often kept in the tropical aquarium

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At the time, Jin was finishing his doctorate at the National University of Singapore, studying immune cell development in zebra fish and pondering a shift to a more challenging system for the next phase of his career. —

Esther Landhuis, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2024 Those upstream circuits are better understood in other organisms, like zebra fish. —

Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024 Mosca notes the same strategies used in this study will likely help illuminate brain-behavior links in other model animals such as zebra fish or fruit flies. —

Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2023 Some zebra fish eyes contained concentrations of cocaine that were 1,000 times higher than levels that would be lethal to humans. —

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