Rheotaxis of Larval Zebrafish: Behavioral Study of a Multi-Sensory Process.

ABSTRACT: Awake animals unceasingly perceive sensory inputs with great variability of nature and intensity, and understanding how the nervous system manages this continuous flow of diverse information to get a coherent representation of the environment is arguably a central question in systems neuroscience. Rheotaxis, the ability shared by most aquatic species to orient toward a current and swim to hold position, is an innate and robust multi-sensory behavior that is known to involve the lateral line and visual systems. To facilitate the neuroethological study of rheotaxic behavior in larval zebrafish we developed an assay for freely swimming larvae that allows for high experimental throughtput, large statistic and a fine description of the behavior. We show that there exist a clear transition from

SUBMITTER: Olive R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4763089 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature