Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29731253›Full record

ArticleNeuron2018

A Brain-wide Circuit Model of Heat-Evoked Swimming Behavior in Larval Zebrafish.

Martin Haesemeyer, Drew N Robson, Jennifer M Li, Alexander F Schier, Florian Engert

Open access · bronzeAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Neuron, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
52citing papers in PubMed
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 109 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. PGE2 modulation of stimulus valence directs zebrafish behavioral fever.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Heat Acclimation Enhances Brain Resilience to Acute Thermal Stress inAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
    Article
  14. BIFROST: A method for registering diverse imaging datasets of theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
    Article
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Network Statistics of the Whole-Brain Connectome ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
    Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Martin HaesemeyerDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: haesemeyer@fas.harvard.edu.
Drew N RobsonThe Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Jennifer M LiThe Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Alexander F SchierDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: schier@fas.harvard.edu.
Florian EngertDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: florian@mcb.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USUniversity of Basel · CH

Funding

Zooming into the fish's brain-What is really going on! Connectomics analysis of larval zebrafish.U19NS104653 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI JOSHUA T VOGELSTEIN · 2017 to 2026
$39.4M
Neural circuits in zebrafish: form, function and plasticityU01NS090449 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI CEPKO, CONSTANCE L, ENGERT, FLORIAN · 2014 to 2016
$5.2M
DNA-mediated recording of cellular historyDP1HD094764 · NICHD · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI SCHIER, ALEXANDER F · 2017 to 2019
$3.5M
Watching a vertebrate brain learn and behave in a virtual environmentDP1NS082121 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI ENGERT, FLORIAN · 2012 to 2015
$3.4M
Transgenic zebrafish for neurobiologyR24NS086601 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI ENGERT, FLORIAN · 2014 to 2017
$1.2M
NICHD NIH HHS DP1 HD094764NINDS NIH HHS DP1 NS082121NINDS NIH HHS R24 NS086601NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS090449NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS104653
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thermosensation provides crucial information, but how temperature representation is transformed from sensation to behavior is poorly understood. Here, we report a preparation that allows control of heat delivery to zebrafish larvae while monitoring motor output and imaging whole-brain calcium signals, thereby uncovering algorithmic and computational rules that couple dynamics of heat modulation, neural activity and swimming behavior. This approach identifies a critical step in the transformation of temperature representation between the sensory trigeminal ganglia and the hindbrain: A simple sustained trigeminal stimulus representation is transformed into a representation of absolute temperature as well as temperature changes in the hindbrain that explains the observed motor output. An activity constrained dynamic circuit model captures the most prominent aspects of these sensori-motor transformations and predicts both behavior and neural activity in response to novel heat stimuli. These findings provide the first algorithmic description of heat processing from sensory input to behavioral output.

Indexed as

Behavior, AnimalCalcium SignalingHot TemperatureSwimmingAlgorithmsAnimalsBrainFunctional NeuroimagingLarvaNeural Networks, ComputerNeural PathwaysNeuronsRhombencephalonThermosensingTrigeminal GanglionZebrafishcalcium imagingcircuit modelcomputationmodelingrepresentationthermosensationzebrafish

Identifiers

PMID29731253
PMCPMC5985529
OpenAlexW2756453213

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.