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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 11.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Cell Biol. 2011;101:111–141. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-387036-0.00005-0

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Cholesterol biosynthesis and protein lipidation are highly conserved in vertebrates. Due to the high genetic conservation of these pathways, human drugs can be used to block specific biochemical steps to determine the roles that cholesterol and protein lipidation play in zebrafish development. Reprinted from Development Cell with permission from Elsevier (Thorpe et al., 2004).