Primary Recipient

TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS

Amount

$649,723.00

Award Date

8/13/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Xiphophorus fishes have been used as an experimental model for fundamental biomedical research for over 75 years. Eventually 'mechanistic' hypothesis must be confirmed using intact animal model systems. Well-characterized diverse experimental animal model