Oryzias latipes, known as medaka, is a model organism from East Asia. Breeding of this small, egg-laying freshwater teleost fish has long been popular among hobbyists in Japan. Now, as biological science has entered the genome era, the medaka provides significant advantages that make it one of the most valuable vertebrate models: a large collection of spontaneous mutants collected over a century, the presence of highly polymorphic inbred lines established over decades, and a recently completed genome sequence. Medaka: A Model for Organogenesis, Human Disease, and Evolution is the first comprehensive monograph to cover a variety of medaka research. 387 p.

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• Kiyoshi Naruse, ed. Ph.D., Associate Professor. National Institute for Basic Biology, 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585 (Japan), Laboratory of Bioresources.
• Minoru Tanaka, ed. Ph.D., Associate Professor. National Institute for Basic Biology, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787 (Japan), Laboratory of Molecular Genetics for Reproduction.
• Hiroyuki Takeda, ed. Ph.D., Professor. The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 0033 (Japan), Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science.
  
   
• Publication date (electronic format): 2014-10.