A Protocol for Laboratory Housing of Turquoise Killifish (Nothobranchius 
furzeri)

Dodzian, J.; Kean, S.; Seidel, J.; Valenzano, D. R.

doi:10.3791/57073

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A Protocol for Laboratory Housing of Turquoise Killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri)

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Dodzian, J.
Valenzano – Evolutionary and Experimental Biology of Ageing, Max Planck Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Max Planck Society;

Kean, S.
Valenzano – Evolutionary and Experimental Biology of Ageing, Max Planck Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Max Planck Society;

Seidel, J.
Valenzano – Evolutionary and Experimental Biology of Ageing, Max Planck Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Max Planck Society;

Valenzano, D. R.
Valenzano – Evolutionary and Experimental Biology of Ageing, Max Planck Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Max Planck Society;

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Dodzian, J., Kean, S., Seidel, J., & Valenzano, D. R. (2018). A Protocol for Laboratory Housing of Turquoise Killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri). J Vis Exp, (134). doi:10.3791/57073.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-7205-6

Abstract

The development of husbandry practices in non-model laboratory fish used for experimental purposes has greatly benefited from the establishment of reference fish model systems, such as zebrafish and medaka. In recent years, an emerging fish - the turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) - has been adopted by a growing number of research groups in the fields of biology of aging and ecology. With a captive life span of 4 - 8 months, this species is the shortest-lived vertebrate raised in captivity and allows the scientific community to test - in a short time - experimental interventions that can lead to alterations of the aging rate and life expectancy. Given the unique biology of this species, characterized by embryonic diapause, explosive sexual maturation, marked morphological and behavioral sexual dimorphism - and their relatively short adult life span - ad hoc husbandry practices are in urgent demand. This protocol reports a set of key husbandry measures that allow optimal turquoise killifish laboratory care, enabling the scientific community to adopt this species as a powerful laboratory animal model.