Neural Circuits Underlying Visually Evoked Escapes in Larval Zebrafish

Neuron

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 613-628

  Dunn, Timothy W ^a,b   Gebhardt, Christoph ^c   Naumann, Eva A ^d   Riegler, Clemens ^a,f   Ahrens, Misha B ^e   Engert, Florian ^a,b   Del Bene, Filippo ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; INTERNEURON; LARVA; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TECTUM; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ESCAPE REACTION; INTERNEURONS; LARVA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84959481952     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.021     Document Type: Article

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