Sparking Life: Bioelectric Communication During Zebrafish Development

Abstract

This colorful digitally drawn comic explains why zebrafish are used as model organisms in biology and biomedical research. It explores research on connexion based gap junctions and the flow of bioelectricity through the neuromuscular system. Created in collaboration between undergraduate cartoonist Bentley Smallwood and UO researcher Dr. Rachel Lukowicz-Bedford as part of the Science and Comics Initiative, read the comic online here: https://opentext.uoregon.edu/science-comics/chapter/sparking-life-bioelectric-communication-during-zebrafish-development/

Description

13 page full color PDF and accompanying transcript (Word) with full image description.

Keywords

Comics, Comics and cartoon studies, Science comics, Science communication, Zebrafish, Biology, Connexins

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