A simple semi-automated home-tank method and procedure to explore classical associative learning in adult zebrafish.

ABSTRACT: The zebrafish is a laboratory species that gained increasing popularity the last decade in a variety of subfields of biology, including toxicology, ecology, medicine, and the neurosciences. An important phenotype often measured in these fields is behaviour. Consequently, numerous new behavioural apparati and paradigms have been developed for the zebrafish, including methods for the analysis of learning and memory in adult zebrafish. Perhaps the biggest obstacle in these methods is that zebrafish is particularly sensitive to human handling. To overcome this confound, automated learning paradigms have been developed with varying success. In this manuscript, we present a semi-automated home tank-based learning/memory test paradigm utilizing visual cues, and show that it is capable of quantify

SUBMITTER: Buatois A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10830691 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature