Adult zebrafish as a model organism for behavioural genetics

Norton, William; Bally-Cuif, Laure

doi:10.1186/1471-2202-11-90

BMC Neuroscience

Table 1 Protocols to measure behaviour in adult zebrafish.

From: Adult zebrafish as a model organism for behavioural genetics

Stage	Behaviour	Paradigm	Reference
Adult	Aggression	Live observation of two fish	[29, 37, 39, 40, 45]
Adult	Aggression	Mirror image test	[6]
Adult	Aggression	Pigment response	[6]
Adult	Aggression	Startle reaction	[85]
Adult	Alarm reaction	Response to alarm substance	[26, 52, 86]
Adult	Antipredation	Predator stimulation	[87]
Adult	Anxiety	Exit latency test	[51]
Adult	Anxiety	Group preference	[6]
Adult	Anxiety	Light/Dark preference	[48, 88]
Adult	Anxiety	Locomotory activity	[6]
Adult	Anxiety	Place preference / Thigmotaxis	[13, 34, 49, 51]
Adult	Anxiety	Tank diving test	[50, 53, 55]
Adult	Anxiety	Time in enriched T-maze chamber	[89]
Adult	Audition	Response to startling noise	[64]
Adult	Courtship	Observation of courtship postures	[82]
Adult	Lateralisation	Interaction with object	[41, 77]
Adult	Locomotion	Mean velocity	[90]
Adult	Locomotion	Number of lines crossed	[36, 81, 87]
Adult	Locomotion	Total distance moved / Videotracking	[80, 81, 90]
Adult	Locomotion	Turning angle	[90]
Adult	Mate choice	Video-stimulus technique	[91]
Adult	Learning / memory	Active avoidance conditioning	[27, 28, 92, 93]
Adult	Learning / memory	Delayed spatial alternation	[35]
Adult	Learning / memory	Learned alarm reactions	[86]
Adult	Learning / memory	Spatial alternation, learning and memory	[31, 32, 54, 94]
Adult	Learning / memory	T-maze	[8, 13, 33, 89]
Adult	Learning / memory	Visual discrimination learning	[29]
Adult	Olfaction	Response to amino acids	[75]
Adult	Reward	Conditioned place preference	[6–9, 13]
Adult	Reward	Presence of Conspecific	[11]
Adult	Sleep	Locomotor inhibition	[61]
Adult	Sleep	Monitoring sleep postures	[57, 58, 63]
Adult	Sleep	Pigment response	[61]
Adult	Social preference	Area occupied	[85]
Adult	Social preference	Group preference	[6]
Adult	Social preference	Nearest neighbour distance	[85]
Adult	Social preference	Shoaling	[3, 78, 87]
Adult	Vision	Optokinetic response	[76]

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