PUBLICATION
Zebrafish and relational memory: Could a simple fish be useful for the analysis of biological mechanisms of complex vertebrate learning?
- Authors
- Gerlai, R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170202-6
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- Behavioural processes 141(Pt 2): 242-250 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Gerlai, Robert T.
- Keywords
- Context learning, Episodic memory, Relational learning, Spatial learning, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Behavior, Animal/physiology*
- Learning/physiology*
- Memory/physiology*
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 28143721 Full text @ Behav. Processes
Citation
Gerlai, R. (2017) Zebrafish and relational memory: Could a simple fish be useful for the analysis of biological mechanisms of complex vertebrate learning?. Behavioural processes. 141(Pt 2):242-250.
Abstract
Analysis of the zebrafish allows one to combine two distinct scientific approaches, comparative ethology and neurobehavioral genetics. Furthermore, this species arguably represents an optimal compromise between system complexity and practical simplicity. This mini-review focuses on a complex form of learning, relational learning and memory, in zebrafish. It argues that zebrafish are capable of this type of learning, and it attempts to show how this species may be useful in the analysis of the mechanisms and the evolution of this complex brain function. The review is not intended to be comprehensive. It is a short opinion piece that reflects the author's own biases, and it draws some of its examples from the work coming from his own laboratory. Nevertheless, it is written in the hope that it will persuade those who have not utilized zebrafish and who may be interested in opening their research horizon to this relatively novel but powerful vertebrate research tool.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping