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Organism
(ORGA)
published: 11 Jun 2008
last updated: 14 Nov 2025
Danio rerio
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Actinopteri |
| Order | Cypriniformes |
| Suborder | Cyprinoidei |
| Subfamily | Danionidae |
| Genus | Danio |
| Species | Danio rerio |
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ZebrafishEN
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Leopard danioEN
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Zebra danioEN
Fish
Domesticated
Danio rerio is native to the streams of the southeastern Himalayan region, and is found in parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Burma. The species arose in the Ganges region in eastern India.
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The zebrafish commonly inhabits relatively still water such as streams, canals, ditches, ponds, and slow-moving or stagnant water bodies, including rice fields
They thrive in tropical and subtropical climates (currents, 0 m–sec to 0.1m–sec) at 27°C to 34°C, but can tolerate a lower temperature of 20°C, and pH 7.9–8.2. Widths of water bodies ranged from 1 to 12 m with canopy cover from 0% to 50% and depths ranged from 16 to 57 cm; water was relatively clear, over substrates of clay, silt, cobble, or boulders.
They thrive in tropical and subtropical climates (currents, 0 m–sec to 0.1m–sec) at 27°C to 34°C, but can tolerate a lower temperature of 20°C, and pH 7.9–8.2. Widths of water bodies ranged from 1 to 12 m with canopy cover from 0% to 50% and depths ranged from 16 to 57 cm; water was relatively clear, over substrates of clay, silt, cobble, or boulders.
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- Ornamental
- Research
- In the past decade or so the zebrafish (Danio rerio) has become a vertebrate of choice in developmental biology laboratories;
- It is easy to keep, has a short generation time, breeds readily, and produces conveniently transparent embryos. Zebrafish behaviors include shoaling, foraging, reproduction, sensory perception and learning. For these and other reasons it has gradually acquired the prestigious rank of Model Organism;
- A complete mitochondrial genome of D. rerio has been reported to be 16,596 bp in length;
- The zebrafish shares 70% genetic homology with humans;
- Restriction-Associated DNA sequencing was performed in order to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms.
- NCBI taxonomy: Danio rerio (ID 7955) [URL] [ English ]
- UniProt taxonomy: Danio rerio (ID 7955) [URL] [ English ]
- Biological Reviews (2007): The behaviour and ecology of the zebrafish, Danio rerio [DOI] [ English ]
- CABI Compendium (2019): Danio rerio (zebra danio) [DOI] [ English ]
- Journal of Fish Diseases (2019): Evaluation of zebrafish (Danio rerio) as an animal model for the viral infections of fish [DOI] [ English ]
- Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC) [ English ]
- Zebrafish (2007): Zebrafish in the Wild: A Review of Natural History and New Notes from the Field [DOI] [ English ]
- Molecular Biology and Evolution (2019): The Laboratory Domestication of Zebrafish From Diverse Populations to Inbred Substrains [PDF] [ English ]
- Journal of Thermal Biology (2006): Projected US distributions of transgenic and wildtype zebra danios, Danio rerio, based on temperature tolerance data [PDF] [ English ]
- Zebrafish Genome Project [ English ]
- Genome Research (2001): The complete sequence of the zebrafish (Danio rerio) mitochondrial genome and evolutionary patterns in vertebrate mitochondrial DNA [PDF] [ English ]
- Nature (2013): The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome [PDF] [ English ]
| Record type | Field | Record(s) | |
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| Genetic element | Donor organism (scientific name) | 2 | |
| Living Modified Organism | Recipient Organism or Parental Organisms | 3 | |
