PUBLICATION
Social behavior of zebrafish: From synthetic images to biological mechanisms of shoaling
- Authors
- Gerlai, R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-140513-44
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- Journal of Neuroscience Methods 234: 59-65 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Gerlai, Robert T.
- Keywords
- Alcoholism, Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Ontogenesis and mechanisms of shoaling, Social behavior, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Brain Diseases/chemically induced
- Brain Diseases/physiopathology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Psychopharmacology
- Social Behavior*
- Swimming
- Time Factors
- Zebrafish/physiology*
- PubMed
- 24793400 Full text @ J. Neurosci. Methods
Citation
Gerlai, R. (2014) Social behavior of zebrafish: From synthetic images to biological mechanisms of shoaling. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 234:59-65.
Abstract
The zebrafish strikes a good balance between system complexity and practical simplicity and as a result it is becoming increasingly frequently utilized in biomedical research as a translational tool. Numerous human brain disorders are associated with abnormal social behavior and the zebrafish has been suggested for modeling such disorders. To start this line of research, however, one may need to first thoroughly examine the laboratory organism, zebrafish, and its features, social behavior in this case. Proper methods need be developed to induce and quantify social behavior. These paradigms may be able to open a window to the brain and facilitate the understanding of the biological mechanisms of social behavior and its abnormalities. This review is based on an oral paper presented at the last Measuring Behavior Conference, and as such it is mainly focused on research conducted in my own laboratory. Tracing the temporal progression of our own work, it discusses questions including what shoaling is, how it can be induced and measured and how it can be utilized in the modeling of certain human brain disorders, for example, alcohol induced abnormalities.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping