Automated imaging of avoidance behavior in larval zebrafish

Neuromethods

Volumn 51, Issue , 2011, Pages 35-48

  Colwill, Ruth M ^a   Creton, Robbert ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated imaging; avoidance behavior; bouncing ball assay; ImageJ; larvae; two fish assay

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 78149324837     PISSN: 08932336     EISSN: 19406045     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-953-6_3     Document Type: Article

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