Control of a specific motor program by a small brain area in zebrafish

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Fajardo, Otto ^a   Zhu, Peixin ^a   Friedrich, Rainer W ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

J turn; Motor control; Optogenetics; Prey capture; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; LARVAL STAGE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT INTENSITY; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREY SELECTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWIMMING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 84875849816     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00067     Document Type: Article

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