Whole-field visual motion drives swimming in larval zebrafish via a stochastic process

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1433-1443

  Portugues, Ruben ^a,b   Haesemeyer, Martin ^a   Blum, Mirella L ^a   Engert, Florian ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Locomotion initiation; Optomotor response; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; MARKOV CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SWIMMING; VISUAL FIELD; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SWIMMING; VISUAL FIELDS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84946202338     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: 14779145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.118299     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Baird, E., Srinivasan, M. V., Zhang, S., Lamont, R. and Cowling, A. (2006). Visual control of flight speed and height in the honeybee. In From Animals to Animats 9, pp. 40-51. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
2. Berg, H. C. (1993). Random Walks in Biology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
3. Borst, A. (2014). Fly visual course control: Behaviour, algorithms and circuits. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 15, 590-599.
4. Buchanan, J. T. and Grillner, S. (1987). Newly identified 'glutamate interneurons' and their role in locomotion in the lamprey spinal cord. Science 236, 312-314.
5. Buchner, E. (1976). Elementary movement detectors in an insect visual system. Biol. Cybern. 24, 85-101.
6. Burkitt, A. N. (2006). A review of the integrate-and-fire neuron model: I. Homogeneous synaptic input. Biol. Cybern. 95, 1-19.
7. David, C. T. (1979). Optomotor control of speed and height by free-flying Drosophila. J. Exp. Biol. 82, 389-392.
8. Dayan, P. and Abbott, L. F. (2001). Theoretical Neuroscience. Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
9. Dieringer, N. and Precht, W. (1982). Compensatory head and eye movements in the frog and their contribution to stabilization of gaze. Exp. Brain Res. 47, 394-406.
10. Disterhoft, J. F., Kwan, H. H. and Lo, W. D. (1977). Nictating membrane conditioning to tone in the immobilized albino rabbit. Brain Res. 137, 127-143.
11. Fry, S. N., Rohrseitz, N., Straw, A. D. and Dickinson, M. H. (2009). Visual control of flight speed in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Exp. Biol. 212, 1120-1130.
12. Gerstein, G. L. and Mandelbrot, B. (1964). Random walk models for the spike activity of a single neuron. Biophys. J. 4, 41-68.
13. Hanes, D. P. and Schall, J. D. (1996). Neural control of voluntary movement initiation. Science 274, 427-430.
14. Junger, W. and Dahmen, H. J. (1991). Response to self-motion in waterstriders: Visual discrimination between rotation and translation. J. Comp. Physiol. A 169, 641-646.
15. Kashin, S. M., Feldman, A. G. and Orlovsky, G. N. (1974). Locomotion of fish evoked by electrical stimulation of the brain. Brain Res. 82, 41-47.
16. Khater, T. T., Quinn, K. J., Pena, J., Baker, J. F. and Peterson, B. W. (1993). The latency of the cat vestibulo-ocular reflex before and after short- And long-term adaptation. Exp. Brain Res. 94, 16-32.
17. Korn, H. and Faber, D. S. (2005). The Mauthner cell half a century later: A neurobiological model for decision-making? Neuron 47, 13-28.
18. Lin, I.-C., Xing, D. and Shapley, R. (2012). Integrate-and-fire vs Poisson models of LGN input to V1 cortex: Noisier inputs reduce orientation selectivity. J. Comput. Neurosci. 33, 559-572.
19. Luce, R. D. (1986). Response Times: Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization. Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
20. Neuhauss, S. C., Biehlmaier, O., Seeliger, M. W., Das, T., Kohler, K., Harris, W. A. and Baier, H. (1999). Genetic disorders of vision revealed by a behavioral screen of 400 essential loci in zebrafish. J. Neurosci. 19, 8603-8615.
21. Orger, M. B., Gahtan, E., Muto, A., Page-McCaw, P., Smear, M. C. and Baier, H. (2003). Behavioral screening assays in zebrafish. Methods Cell Biol. 77, 53-68.
22. Orger, M. B., Kampff, A. R., Severi, K. E., Bollmann, J. H. and Engert, F. (2008). Control of visually guided behavior by distinct populations of spinal projection neurons. Nat. Neurosci. 11, 327-333.
23. Portugues, R. and Engert, F. (2009). The neural basis of visual behaviors in the larval zebrafish. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 19, 644-647.
24. Portugues, R. and Engert, F. (2011). Adaptive locomotor behavior in larval zebrafish. Front. Syst. Neurosci. 5, 72.
25. Reichardt, W. and Poggio, T. (1976). Visual control of orientation behaviour in the fly: Part I. A quantitative analysis. Q. Rev. Biophys. 9, 311-375.
26. Robinson, D. A. (1989). Integrating with neurons. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 12, 33-45.
27. Schall, J. D. and Thompson, K. G. (1999). Neural selection and control of visually guided eye movements. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 22, 241-259.
28. Severi, K. E., Portugues, R., Marques, J. C., O'Malley, D. M., Orger, M. B. and Engert, F. (2014). Neural control and modulation of swimming speed in the larval zebrafish. Neuron 83, 692-707.
29. Shadlen, M. N. and Newsome, W. T. (1994). Noise, neural codes and cortical organization. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 4, 569-579.
30. Shadlen, M. N. and Newsome, W. T. (1998). The variable discharge of cortical neurons: Implications for connectivity, computation, and information coding. J. Neurosci. 18, 3870-3896.
31. Shik, M. L., Severin, F. V. and Orlovsky, G. N. (1969). Control ofwalking and running by means of electrical stimulation of the mesencephalon. Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol. 26, 549.
32. Softky, W. R. and Koch, C. (1993). The highly irregular firing of cortical cells is inconsistent with temporal integration of random EPSPs. J. Neurosci. 13, 334-350.
33. Srinivasan, M. V., Poteser, M. and Kral, K. (1999). Motion detection in insect orientation and navigation. Vision Res. 39, 2749-2766.
34. Stevens, C. F. and Zador, A. M. (1998). Input synchrony and the irregular firing of cortical neurons. Nat. Neurosci. 1, 210-217.
35. Tuckwell, H. C. (1988). Introduction to Theoretical Neurobiology: Volume 2, Nonlinear and Stochastic Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
36. van Vreeswijk, C. and Sompolinsky, H. (1996). Chaos in neuronal networks with balanced excitatory and inhibitory activity. Science 274, 1724-1726.
37. Zanker, J. M. and Collett, T. S. (1985). The optomotor system on the ground: On the absence of visual control of speed in walking ladybirds. J. Comp. Physiol. A 156, 395-402.