Zebrafish as a model to understand extraocular motor neuron diversity

C Bellegarda, F Auer, D Schoppik - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2025 - Elsevier
Motor neurons have highly diverse anatomical, functional and molecular features, and differ
significantly in their susceptibility in disease. Extraocular motor neurons, residing in the …

Predicting modular functions and neural coding of behavior from a synaptic wiring diagram

A Vishwanathan, A Sood, J Wu, AD Ramirez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A long-standing goal in neuroscience is to understand how a circuit's form influences its
function. Here, we reconstruct and analyze a synaptic wiring diagram of the larval zebrafish …

Two-photon all-optical neurophysiology for the dissection of larval zebrafish brain functional and effective connectivity

L Turrini, P Ricci, M Sorelli, G de Vito… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
One of the most audacious goals of modern neuroscience is unraveling the complex web of
causal relations underlying the activity of neuronal populations on a whole-brain scale. This …

[HTML][HTML] Zebrafish as a rapid model system for early cardiotoxicity assessment of drugs

Z Lin, X Wei, Y Wei, Z Miao, H Ye, M Wu, X Liu… - Journal of Holistic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective There are some problems in the evaluation of drug cardiotoxicity in zebrafish, such
as unsystematic indicators and weak sensitivity. This study aims to explore the advantages …

Hummingbirds use compensatory eye movements to stabilize both rotational and translational visual motion

AB Lapsansky, P Kreyenmeier, M Spering… - …, 2025 - royalsocietypublishing.org
To maintain stable vision, behaving animals make compensatory eye movements in
response to image slip, a reflex known as the optokinetic response (OKR). Although OKR …

The optomotor response of hummingbirds during hovering flight: effects of stimulus characteristics and location in the visual field

J Theriault - 2024 - open.library.ubc.ca
Hummingbirds are highly maneuverable animals that rely on vision to guide flight behaviour.
When large field stimuli are presented in their frontal visual field, hovering hummingbirds will …

[PDF][PDF] Mechanisms for plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons

R Tanaka, R Portugues - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Vision is a sensory modality particularly important for navigation, as it can inform animals of
their current heading (ie visual landmarks) as well as its changes (ie optic flow). It has been …

Two-photon all-optical electrophysiology for the dissection of larval zebrafish brain functional connectivity

L Turrini, P Ricci, M Sorelli, G de Vito, M Marchetti… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
One of the most audacious goals of modern neuroscience is unraveling the complex web of
causal relations underlying the activity of neuronal populations on a whole-brain scale. This …

A complete account of the behavioral repertoire uncovers principles of larval zebrafish hunting behavior

Y Rubinstein, M Moshkovitz, I Ottenheimer, S Shapira… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
In goal-directed behavior animals select actions from a diverse repertoire of possible
movements. Accurately quantifying the complete behavioral repertoire can uncover the …