Zebrafish: development of a vertebrate model organism

JR Meyers - Current Protocols Essential Laboratory …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are a small‐bodied tropical, freshwater fish species originally from
South Asia. The ease of care, year‐round prolific breeding, and transparent, external …

Approaches to test the neurotoxicity of environmental contaminants in the zebrafish model: From behavior to molecular mechanisms

JA Fitzgerald, S Könemann… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The occurrence of neuroactive chemicals in the aquatic environment is on the rise and
poses a potential threat to aquatic biota of currently unpredictable outcome. In particular …

Whole-brain activity mapping onto a zebrafish brain atlas

O Randlett, CL Wee, EA Naumann, O Nnaemeka… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
In order to localize the neural circuits involved in generating behaviors, it is necessary to
assign activity onto anatomical maps of the nervous system. Using brain registration across …

Zebrafish behavior: opportunities and challenges

MB Orger, GG de Polavieja - Annual review of neuroscience, 2017 - annualreviews.org
A great challenge in neuroscience is understanding how activity in the brain gives rise to
behavior. The zebrafish is an ideal vertebrate model to address this challenge, thanks to the …

The neural basis of escape behavior in vertebrates

T Branco, P Redgrave - Annual review of neuroscience, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Escape is one of the most studied animal behaviors, and there is a rich normative theory that
links threat properties to evasive actions and their timing. The behavioral principles of …

The zebrafish visual system: from circuits to behavior

JH Bollmann - Annual review of vision science, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Visual stimuli can evoke complex behavioral responses, but the underlying streams of
neural activity in mammalian brains are difficult to follow because of their size. Here, I review …

[HTML][HTML] Probabilistic models of larval zebrafish behavior reveal structure on many scales

RE Johnson, S Linderman, T Panier, CL Wee, E Song… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Nervous systems have evolved to combine environmental information with internal state to
select and generate adaptive behavioral sequences. To better understand these …

Principles governing locomotion in vertebrates: lessons from zebrafish

EM Berg, ER Björnfors, I Pallucchi, LD Picton… - Frontiers in neural …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Locomotor behaviors are critical for survival and enable animals to navigate their
environment, find food and evade predators. The circuits in the brain and spinal cord that …

Integrative whole-brain neuroscience in larval zebrafish

GC Vanwalleghem, MB Ahrens, EK Scott - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Neural activity can now be recorded in all cells of larval zebrafish
brains.•Neurons involved in sensation, motor control, and learning have been …

Expansion microscopy of zebrafish for neuroscience and developmental biology studies

L Freifeld, I Odstrcil, D Förster… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Expansion microscopy (ExM) allows scalable imaging of preserved 3D biological specimens
with nanoscale resolution on fast diffraction-limited microscopes. Here, we explore the utility …