Zebrafish (Danio rerio) responds to the animated image of a predator: Towards the development of an automated aversive task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 318-324

  Gerlai, Robert ^a   Fernandes, Yohaan ^a   Pereira, Terence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antipredatory behavior; Anxiety; Behavioral phenotyping; Fear; Zebra danio; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 67349202870     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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