Medaka

1. A Glance at the Past of Medaka Fish Biology
Hiroshi Hori

Part I. Genomics, Genetics, and Resources

2. Genetics, Genomics, and Biological Resources in the Medaka, Oryzias latipes

Kiyoshi Naruse

3. Chromatin-Associated Periodicity in Genetic Variation Downstream of Transcriptional Start Sites
Shin Sasaki, Cecilia C. Mello, Atsuko Shimada, Yoichiro Nakatani, Shin-ichi Hashimoto, Masako Ogawa, Kouji Matsushima, Sam Guoping Gu, Masahiro Kasahara, Budrul Ahsan, Atsushi Sasaki, Taro Saito, Yutaka Suzuki, Sumio Sugano, Yuji Kohara, Hiroyuki Takeda, Andrew Fire, Shinichi Morishita

4. Transposable Elements Tol1 and Tol2

Akihiko Koga

5. A Systematic Screen for Mutations Affecting Organogenesis in Medaka
Makoto Furutani-Seiki

Part II. Organogenesis and Disease Models

6. Medaka Bone Development
Akira Kudo

7. Anatomical Atlas of Blood VascularSystem of Medaka
Sumio Isogai, Misato Fujita

8. Kidney Development, Regeneration, and Polycystic Kidney Disease in Medaka
Hisashi Hashimoto

9. Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia in Fish:The Analysis of a Novel Medaka Mutant Kintoun

Daisuke Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Takeda

10.
p53-Deficient Medaka Created by TILLING
Yoshihito Taniguchi

11. Medaka Spontaneous Mutants for Body Coloration
Shoji Fukamachi

12. Craniofacial Traits
Minori Shinya

13.
Double Anal Fin (Da): A Medaka Mutant Exhibiting a Mirror-Image Pattern Duplication of the Dorsal–Ventral Axis
Masato Ohtsuka, Hiroyuki Takeda, Atsuko Shimada

Part III. Germ Cells, Sex Determination, and Reproduction

14. Interaction of Germ Cells and Gonadal Somatic Cells During Gonadal Formation
Minoru Tanaka

15. Frequent Turnover of Sex Chromosomes in the Medaka Fishes
Yusuke Takehana

16. Function of the Medaka Male Sex-Determining Gene
Manfred Schartl

17. The Sex-Determining Gene in Medaka
Masaru Matsuda

18. Endocrine Regulation of Oogenesis in the Medaka, Oryzias latipes

Naoki Shibata, Masatoshi Nakamoto, Yasushi Shibata, Yoshitaka Nagahama

19. Interspecific Medaka Hybrids as Experimental Models for Investigating Cell Division and Germ Cell Development
Toshiharu Iwai, Chiharu Sakai, Fumiko Konno, Masakane Yamashita

Part IV. Evolution

20. Reconstruction of the Vertebrate Ancestral Genome Reveals Dynamic Genome Reorganization in Early Vertebrates
Yoichiro Nakatani, Hiroyuki Takeda, Yuji Kohara, Shinichi Morishita

21. Genome Duplication and Subfunction Partitioning: Sox9 in Medaka and Other Vertebrates
Hayato Yokoi, John H. Postlethwait

22. Human Population Genetics Meets Medaka
Hiroki Oota, Hiroshi Mitani

23. Evolution of the Major Histocompatibility Complex: A Lesson from the Oryzias Species
Masaru Nonaka, Kentaro Tsukamoto

24. Molecular Evolution of Teleostean Hatching Enzymes and Their Egg Envelope Digestion Mechanism: An Aspect of Co-Evolution of Protease and Substrate
Shigeki Yasumasu, Kaori Sano, Mari Kawaguchi

Keywords: Life Sciences, Animal Models, Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Transgenics, Animal Genetics and Genomics