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ArticleeLife2020

From behavior to circuit modeling of light-seeking navigation in zebrafish larvae.

Sophia Karpenko, Sebastien Wolf, Julie Lafaye, Guillaume Le Goc, Thomas Panier, Volker Bormuth, Raphaël Candelier, Georges Debrégeas

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Sophia KarpenkoSorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), Paris, France.
Sebastien WolfLaboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS UMR 8023 & PSL Research, Paris, France.
Julie LafayeSorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), Paris, France.
Guillaume Le GocSorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), Paris, France.
Thomas PanierSorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), Paris, France.
Volker BormuthSorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), Paris, France.
Raphaël CandelierSorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1523-6249
Georges DebrégeasSorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3698-4497

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-16-CE16-0017Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale FDT201904008219Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale SPF201809007064H2020 European Research Council 71598Human Frontier Science Program RGP0060/2017Inserm ATIP-Avenir program
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bridging brain-scale circuit dynamics and organism-scale behavior is a central challenge in neuroscience. It requires the concurrent development of minimal behavioral and neural circuit models that can quantitatively capture basic sensorimotor operations. Here, we focus on light-seeking navigation in zebrafish larvae. Using a virtual reality assay, we first characterize how motor and visual stimulation sequences govern the selection of discrete swim-bout events that subserve the fish navigation in the presence of a distant light source. These mechanisms are combined into a comprehensive Markov-chain model of navigation that quantitatively predicts the stationary distribution of the fish's body orientation under any given illumination profile. We then map this behavioral description onto a neuronal model of the ARTR, a small neural circuit involved in the orientation-selection of swim bouts. We demonstrate that this visually-biased decision-making circuit can capture the statistics of both spontaneous and contrast-driven navigation.

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LightAnimalsBehavior, AnimalBiomechanical PhenomenaLarvaLocomotionMarkov ChainsModels, BiologicalNeuronsOrientationPhotic StimulationPhototaxisZebrafishanimal behaviorcomputational biologydecision-makingneural circuit modelsneurosciencephototaxissystems biologyzebrafish

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PMID31895038
PMCPMC6989119

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