PUBLICATION
Behavioral Neurobiology: How Larval Fish Orient towards the Light
- Authors
- Mueller, K.P., and Neuhauss, S.C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100302-3
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- Current biology : CB 20(4): R159-R161 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Neuhauss, Stephan
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Signal Transduction/physiology*
- Visual Perception/physiology*
- Motor Activity/physiology*
- Zebrafish/physiology*
- Larva/physiology
- Retina/physiology*
- Animals
- Light*
- Orientation/physiology*
- PubMed
- 20178761 Full text @ Curr. Biol.
Citation
Mueller, K.P., and Neuhauss, S.C. (2010) Behavioral Neurobiology: How Larval Fish Orient towards the Light. Current biology : CB. 20(4):R159-R161.
Abstract
Orientation of animals towards or away from light is a simple behavior commonly found in the animal kingdom. A recent study using zebrafish larvae has revealed the underlying neural logic of this primal choice behavior, by differential use of the retinal ON- and OFF-pathways.
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