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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020

Brain-Wide Mapping of Water Flow Perception in Zebrafish.

Gilles Vanwalleghem, Kevin Schuster, Michael A Taylor, Itia A Favre-Bulle, Ethan K Scott

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Whole-body central processing of lateral line inputs encodes flow direction relative to the center-of-mass.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. Brain-Wide Impacts of Sedation on Spontaneous Activity and Auditory Processing in Larval Zebrafish.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  12. Representation of bulk water flow in the goldfish (Carassius auratus) midbrain.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025
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  20. From calcium imaging to graph topology.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gilles VanwalleghemThe Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia g.vanwalleghem@uq.edu.au ethan.scott@uq.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0002-6188-9582
Kevin SchusterSchool of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.
Michael A TaylorAustralian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.
Itia A Favre-BulleThe Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.
Ethan K ScottThe Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia g.vanwalleghem@uq.edu.au ethan.scott@uq.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0003-3150-9216
The University of Queensland · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Information about water flow, detected by lateral line organs, is critical to the behavior and survival of fish and amphibians. While certain aspects of water flow processing have been revealed through electrophysiology, we lack a comprehensive description of the neurons that respond to water flow and the network that they form. Here, we use brain-wide calcium imaging in combination with microfluidic stimulation to map out, at cellular resolution, neuronal responses involved in perceiving and processing water flow information in larval zebrafish. We find a diverse array of neurons responding to head-to-tail (h-t) flow, tail-to-head (t-h) flow, or both. Early in this pathway, in the lateral line ganglia, neurons respond almost exclusively to the simple presence of h-t or t-h flow, but later processing includes neurons responding specifically to flow onset, representing the accumulated displacement of flow during a stimulus, or encoding the speed of the flow. The neurons reporting on these more nuanced details are located across numerous brain regions, including some not previously implicated in water flow processing. A graph theory-based analysis of the brain-wide water flow network shows that a majority of this processing is dedicated to h-t flow detection, and this is reinforced by our finding that details like flow velocity and the total accumulated flow are only encoded for the h-t direction. The results represent the first brain-wide description of processing for this important modality, and provide a departure point for more detailed studies of the flow of information through this network.

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AnimalsBrainLateral Line SystemMicrofluidicsMotion PerceptionNeuronsWaterZebrafishWatercalcium imaginglateral linelight sheet microscopymicrofluidicsensoryzebrafish

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PMID32277044
PMCPMC7244201
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