| the national bioresource project medaka (nbrp medaka): an integrated bioresource for biological and biomedical sciences. | medaka (oryzias latipes) is a small freshwater teleost fish that serves as a model vertebrate organism in various fields of biology including development, genetics, toxicology and evolution. the recent completion of the medaka genome sequencing project has promoted the use of medaka as a comparative and complementary material for research on other vertebrates such as zebrafish, sticklebacks, mice, and humans. the japanese government has supported the development of medaka bioresources since 2002 ... | 2010 | 20224166 |