
Behavioral and Neural Genetics of Zebrafish
Description
Key Features
- Provides the most comprehensive snapshot of the fast-evolving zebrafish neurobehavior genetics field
- Describes behavioral, genetic and neural methods and concepts for use in adult and larval zebrafish
- Features examples of zebrafish models of human central nervous system disorders
- Discusses bioinformatics questions pertinent to zebrafish neurobehavioral genetics
Readership
Neuroscientists, behavioral neuroscientists, neurobiologists, experimental biologists, behavioral geneticists, psychologists, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows
Table of Contents
Section I. Introduction to Zebrafish: Natural Habitat, Ethology, and Appropriate Maintenance Conditions
1. The biotic and abiotic environment of zebrafish
2. Maintenance and breeding of zebrafish, with some ethological and ecological considerations in mindSection II. The Behavior of the Fry
3. The larval visual system and behavioral responses to visual stimuli
4. Visual escape in larval zebrafish: Stimuli, circuits, and behavior
5. Functional review of hearing in zebrafish
6. The development of social behavior
7. Classical and operant conditioning in larval zebrafishSection III. The Behavior of the Adult
8. Motor patterns and swim path characteristics: the ethogram of zebrafish
9. Behavioral criteria and techniques to define sleep in zebrafish
10. Fear responses and antipredatory behavior of zebrafish: A translational perspective
11. Social behavior and its psychopharmacological and genetic analysis in zebrafish
12. Associative and non-associative learning in adult zebrafish
13. Relational learning in zebrafish: A model of declarative memory in humans?Section IV. Genetic Methods for Zebrafish
14. Molecular genetic approaches to dissect complex behaviors in zebrafish
15. Behavioural research in zebrafish (Danio rerio): strain as source of variation
16. Designer mutants for behavioral genetics
17. Optogenetics
18. The CRISPR/Cas system in zebrafish
19. PhOTO Zebrafish and primed conversion: Advancing the mechanistic view of development and diseaseSection V. Disease Models and Behavior Genetic Applications
20. Acute and chronic alcohol effects in zebrafish
21. Behavioural genetics of embryonic ethanol exposure in zebrafish: A model for FASD
22. Life, death, and regeneration of zebrafish dopaminergic neurons
23. Parkinson's Disease
24. Seizures and epilepsy
25. Aging, circadian clock and neurogenesis: the zebrafish approach
26. Modeling autism spectrum disorders in zebrafish
27. Studying aggression in zebrafish
28. Methylmercury induces transgenerationally transmissible epigenetic changes influencing zebrafish behaviorSection VI. Big Data and Bioinformatics
29. The design of behavioral screening in zebrafish
30. Software tools for behavioral phenotyping of zebrafish across the life span
31. The Zebrafish Genome Sequencing Project: Bioinformatics resources
32. Registered, standardized, and interactive: a review of online resources for zebrafish neuroanatomy
Product details
- No. of pages: 614
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: April 3, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128175286
- eBook ISBN: 9780128175293
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Robert Gerlai

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