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Medakafish Mutant- fu-6

fu-6 : notochord is bent in a curred shape at the embryonic stage.
Vertebrae are fused to form a short body in adults. Inbreeding is difficult. Maintenance is done by back-crosses (females often sterile).



Noriko MATSUDA-OGAWA
A phenogenetic study of the vertebral fused (f) in the medaka, Oryzias latipes.
Embryologia 9 (1); 13-33 (1965).

Toki-o YAMAMOTO, Hideo TOMITA, Noriko MATSUDA
Hereditaray and nonheritable vertebral anchilosis in the medaka, Oryzias latipes.
Jpn. J. Genet. 38 (1); 36-47 (1963).


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