Open AccessZebrafish microbiome studies make waves
Author(s) -
Keaton Stagaman,
Thomas J. Sharpton,
Karen Guillemin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lab animal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.584
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1548-4475
pISSN - 0093-7355
DOI - 10.1038/s41684-020-0573-6
Subject(s) - zebrafish , microbiome , model organism , biology , vertebrate , gut microbiome , observational study , function (biology) , organism , computational biology , evolutionary biology , bioinformatics , genetics , medicine , pathology , gene
Zebrafish have a 50-year history as a model organism for studying vertebrate developmental biology and more recently have emerged as a powerful model system for studying vertebrate microbiome assembly, dynamics and function. In this Review, we discuss the strengths of the zebrafish model for both observational and manipulative microbiome studies, and we highlight some of the important insights gleaned from zebrafish gut microbiome research.