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Preferences for achromatic horizontal, vertical, and square patterns in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is gaining popularity as a laboratory organism and is used to model many human diseases. Many behavioural measures of locomotion and cognition have been developed that involve the processing of visual stimuli. However, the innate preference for vertical and horizontal str...

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Autores principales: Rimstad, Lisa A., Holcombe, Adam, Pope, Alicia, Hamilton, Trevor J., Schalomon, Melike P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5588788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28890853
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3748
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author Rimstad, Lisa A.
Holcombe, Adam
Pope, Alicia
Hamilton, Trevor J.
Schalomon, Melike P.
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description The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is gaining popularity as a laboratory organism and is used to model many human diseases. Many behavioural measures of locomotion and cognition have been developed that involve the processing of visual stimuli. However, the innate preference for vertical and horizontal stripes in zebrafish is unknown. We tested the preference of adult zebrafish for three achromatic patterns (vertical stripes, horizontal stripes, and squares) at three different size conditions (1, 5, and 10 mm). Each animal was tested once in a rectangular arena, which had a different pattern of the same size condition on the walls of either half of the arena. We show that zebrafish have differential preferences for patterned stimuli at each of the three size conditions. These results suggest that zebrafish have naïve preferences that should be carefully considered when testing zebrafish in paradigms using visual stimuli.
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spelling pubmed-55887882017-09-08 Preferences for achromatic horizontal, vertical, and square patterns in zebrafish (Danio rerio) Rimstad, Lisa A. Holcombe, Adam Pope, Alicia Hamilton, Trevor J. Schalomon, Melike P. PeerJ Animal Behavior The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is gaining popularity as a laboratory organism and is used to model many human diseases. Many behavioural measures of locomotion and cognition have been developed that involve the processing of visual stimuli. However, the innate preference for vertical and horizontal stripes in zebrafish is unknown. We tested the preference of adult zebrafish for three achromatic patterns (vertical stripes, horizontal stripes, and squares) at three different size conditions (1, 5, and 10 mm). Each animal was tested once in a rectangular arena, which had a different pattern of the same size condition on the walls of either half of the arena. We show that zebrafish have differential preferences for patterned stimuli at each of the three size conditions. These results suggest that zebrafish have naïve preferences that should be carefully considered when testing zebrafish in paradigms using visual stimuli. PeerJ Inc. 2017-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5588788/ /pubmed/28890853 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3748 Text en ©2017 Rimstad et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Rimstad, Lisa A.
Holcombe, Adam
Pope, Alicia
Hamilton, Trevor J.
Schalomon, Melike P.
Preferences for achromatic horizontal, vertical, and square patterns in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
title Preferences for achromatic horizontal, vertical, and square patterns in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
title_full Preferences for achromatic horizontal, vertical, and square patterns in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
title_fullStr Preferences for achromatic horizontal, vertical, and square patterns in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
title_full_unstemmed Preferences for achromatic horizontal, vertical, and square patterns in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
title_short Preferences for achromatic horizontal, vertical, and square patterns in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
title_sort preferences for achromatic horizontal, vertical, and square patterns in zebrafish (danio rerio)
topic Animal Behavior
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5588788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28890853
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3748
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