This is a diagram of the zebrafish eye. Left: photograph of the zebrafish eye under a microscope, with the anterior region situated at the top of the photograph and the posterior region at the bottom.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University student's research project related to zebrafish eye development could lead to a better understanding of vision problems that affect billions of people ...

Right: schematic of larval zebrafish immobilized in low-melting-point agarose for imaging. The diagram illustrates different embedding orientations. Anterior (A), posterior (P), dorsal (D), and ...

Zebrafish research is a promising way to understand the neural and genetic causes of eye movement problems in people, according to multi-university research. Researchers studying zebrafish have found ...

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns known as the "cone mosaic." Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science ...

The ability of some animals to dynamically change color to match the brightness of their surroundings is one of nature's great survival tools, allowing flatfish to blend into sandy seabeds, frogs to ...