Structural and functional organization of visual responses in the inferior olive of larval zebrafish

R Félix, DA Markov, SL Renninger… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
The olivo-cerebellar system plays an important role in vertebrate sensorimotor control. Here,
we investigate sensory representations in the inferior olive (IO) of larval zebrafish and their …

Functional, molecular and morphological heterogeneity of superficial interneurons in the larval zebrafish tectum

AJ Barker, TO Helmbrecht, AA Grob… - Journal of Comparative …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The superficial interneurons, SINs, of the zebrafish tectum, have been implicated in a range
of visual functions, including size discrimination, directional selectivity, and looming‐evoked …

Multiple faces of stress in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) brain

C Pietsch, J Konrad, E Wernicke von Siebenthal… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The changing expressions of certain genes as a consequence of exposure to stressors has
not been studied in detail in the fish brain. Therefore, a stress trial with zebrafish was …

Genoarchitectonics of the larval zebrafish diencephalon

MF Wullimann, N Mokayes, I Shainer… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The brain is spatially organized into subdivisions, nuclei and areas, which often correspond
to functional and developmental units. A segmentation of brain regions in the form of a …

Tensor formalism for predicting synaptic connections with ensemble modeling or optimization

T Biswas, TL Li, JE Fitzgerald - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.20309, 2023 - arxiv.org
Theoretical neuroscientists often try to understand how the structure of a neural network
relates to its function by focusing on structural features that would either follow from …

The zebrafish visual system transmits dimming information via multiple segregated pathways

E Robles, NP Fields, H Baier - Journal of Comparative …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Vertebrate retinas contain circuits specialized to encode light level decrements. This
information is transmitted to the brain by dimming‐sensitive OFF retinal ganglion cells (OFF …

Retinal input influences pace of neurogenesis but not cell-type configuration of the visual forebrain

S Sherman, K Kawakami, H Baier - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The brain is assembled during development by both innate and experience-dependent
mechanisms–, but the relative contribution of these factors is poorly understood. Axons of …

A medley of gene expression adds new depth to zebrafish brain maps

L Schulze, D Zada, M Lovett-Barron - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
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Transcriptional control of visual neural circuit development by GS homeobox 1

AR Schmidt, HJ Placer, IM Muhammad… - Plos …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
As essential components of gene expression networks, transcription factors regulate neural
circuit assembly. The homeobox transcription factor encoding gene, gs homeobox 1 (gsx1) …

A brainstem integrator for self-localization and positional homeostasis

E Yang, MF Zwart, M Rubinov, B James, Z Wei… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
To accurately track self-location, animals need to integrate their movements through space.
In amniotes, representations of self-location have been found in regions such as the …