In the bony fish, known as teleosts, building the spine relies on a tube-like structure running the length of the developing embryo called the notochord. The notochord sets up the patterns that lead ...

Two males of the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni, the model organism used to study spine and soft-ray development in Hoech et al. (Credit: Joost Woltering) Two males of the cichlid fish ...

A chance mutation that led to spinal defects in a zebrafish has opened a little window into our own fishy past. Rising fifth-year Duke graduate student Brianna Peskin, who started the project during ...