Mass embryo production system

我们正在申请资金，以获得两个微型大规模胚胎生产系统。这些系统是一个集成的住房和斑马鱼交配系统与控制水流，光周期和繁殖。该系统将用于饲养大量成年斑马鱼，并获得大量卵用于遗传分析。该系统将增强我们现有的鱼类饲养系统，该系统已得到充分利用，目前除了为合作者和本科生研究提供胚胎外，还无法生产足够的斑马鱼胚胎供我们自己使用。随着卡尔加里大学越来越多的研究人员有兴趣在自己的研究中使用这种强大的模型，将持续需要增加斑马鱼的住房。大规模胚胎生产系统具有额外的优势，它将允许大量的鱼被保持在一个较小的足迹，需要更少的劳动力。

We are requesting funds to obtain two Mini Mass Embryo Production Systems. These systems are an integrated housing and mating system for zebrafish with controlled water flow, light cycle and breeding. The systems will be used to raise large numbers of adult zebrafish, and to obtain large numbers of eggs for genetic analysis. This system will augment our existing fish housing system which is fully utilized and currently is limited in the ability to produce enough zebrafish embryos for our own use, in addition to embryos for collaborators and for undergraduate research. There will be an ongoing need increase zebrafish housing as an increasing number of researchers at the University of Calgary are interested in using this powerful model in their own research. The Mass Embryo Production system has the added advantage that it will allow for a large number of fish to be maintained in a smaller footprint, with less labor required.