PUBLICATION
Adult zebrafish as a model organism for behavioural genetics
- Authors
- Norton, W., and Bally-Cuif, L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100806-13
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- BMC Neuroscience 11: 90 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Bally-Cuif, Laure, Norton, Will
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal/physiology*
- Genetics, Behavioral/methods*
- Learning/physiology
- Models, Animal*
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- PubMed
- 20678210 Full text @ BMC Neurosci.
Citation
Norton, W., and Bally-Cuif, L. (2010) Adult zebrafish as a model organism for behavioural genetics. BMC Neuroscience. 11:90.
Abstract
Recent research has demonstrated the suitability of adult zebrafish to model some aspects of complex behaviour. Studies of reward behaviour, learning and memory, aggression, anxiety and sleep strongly suggest that conserved regulatory processes underlie behaviour in zebrafish and mammals. The isolation and molecular analysis of zebrafish behavioural mutants is now starting, allowing the identification of novel behavioural control genes. As a result of this, studies of adult zebrafish are now helping to uncover the genetic pathways and neural circuits that control vertebrate behaviour.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping