We use the zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model organism to study pigment pattern formation in a vertebrate.
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Group leader: Oliver Weichenrieder
LINE-1 and Alu RNAs can be regarded as ‘selfish’ RNAs that propagate in their human ‘hosts’ in the form of non-LTR retrotransposons. Non-LTR retrotransposons belong to the simplest forms of selfish RNA.
