Oryzias melastigma: A New Promising Model Organism for Marine Ecotoxicology
新兴海洋生态毒理学模式生物——海洋青鳉鱼(Oryzias melastigma)

Increasingly serious ocean pollution makes it important to establish a suitable marine fish model for marine ecotoxicological studies. The marine medaka (Oryzias melastigma) is becoming a promising potential model organism for ecotoxicology in marine environment due to the advantages of its culture conditions, physiological features and genetic information. In this review, the advantages of O. melastigma as model organism in marine ecotoxicological researches were summarized. The applications of O. melastigma in toxicological studies were fully introduced, which especially focused on the application in molecular toxicology. Finally, the future studies of O. melastigma in marine ecotoxicology were prospected.