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Guidelines for Submitting Fish

Thank you for your interest in making a new resource available to the research community by submitting a fish strain(s) to the China Zebrafish Resource Center (CZRC). Please review our criteria, requirements, and instructions for submitting your strain. Importation of a strain to the CZRC consists of multiple steps (see Submission Instructions), and it may take several weeks before you can ship your strain to the Resource Center, and several months until your line is fully established at the CZRC.

Please review carefully our criteria and requirements for line submission to the CZRC.

Criteria for Strain Approval
  1. Line relevance for current or anticipated future research. Scientific significance of each line if multiple alleles per locus are submitted or already exist at CZRC
  2. Availability of information about submitted lines (i.e. published information and/or information provided to the CZRC)
  3. Availability of genotypic/phenotypic identification procedures (please note that lines requiring specialized identification protocols, that cannot be reproduced at the CZRC, may not be accepted or be accepted and maintained as cryopreserved samples only)
  4. Ability to maintain a strain(s) until it is fully established in the Resource Center
Requirements for Line Submission
  1. For submission of 50 lines or fewer, the strains are provided to the Resource Center as adult fish only (the CZRC does not accept embryos). Healthy, breedable, identified adult carriers (at least 5 males and 5 females) that are no older than 9 months of age are required. This ensures a speedy importation process and allows us to establish your strain(s) in the most efficient manner. Please consider that by accepting fish strains, the Resource Center provides a direct service to you by maintaining the strains and/or distributing them to the community.
  2. For submissions of more than 50 lines, the CZRC would prefer to import these lines as frozen sperm.
  3. You agree to maintain your strain until it is fully established at the CZRC and listed as available on the CZRC website.
  4. All mutant, transgenic, and wild-type lines must have a ZFIN record and approved nomenclature. Please contact ZFIN at nomenclature_coordinators@zfin.org for nomenclature assistance.
  5. The submitter is responsible for all costs associated with preparing and shipping fish strains to the CZRC. Please note that these costs should be included when requesting funding from the NSFC or other funding agencies.
Submission Instructions
  1. Upon downloading and opening the CZRC Submission Form (Excel Spreadsheet), please select the appropriate tabs at the bottom of the form and complete these pages and fields as thoroughly as possible. It is particularly helpful to give as much detailed information as possible about husbandry requirements and how mutants or transgenics can be identified. Please be very precise when you describe phenotypes/genotypes. Insufficient information may result in a poor priority rating of the strain(s) you want to submit!
  2. After you have completed the submission form, email the form to zebrafish_sub@ihb.ac.cn. You will receive confirmation that your submission information has been received by the CZRC. If additional information or clarification of information is required, you will be contacted within 2-3 weeks.
  3. You agree to maintain your strain until it is fully established at the CZRC and listed as available on the CZRC website.
  4. All mutant, transgenic, and wild-type lines must have a ZFIN record and approved nomenclature. Please contact ZFIN at nomenclature_coordinators@zfin.org for nomenclature assistance.
  5. The submitter is responsible for all costs associated with preparing and shipping fish strains to the CZRC. Please note that these costs should be included when requesting funding from the NSFC or other funding agencies.