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Behavioral neurobiology: how larval fish orient towards the light
Kaspar P Mueller1, Stephan C F Neuhauss
1University of Zurich, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Neuroscience Center Zurich and Center for Integrative Human Physiology, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland. kaspar.mueller@imls.uzh.ch
Current Biology : CB
|February 25, 2010
Abstract:
Orientation of animals towards or away from light is a simple behavior commonly found in the animal kingdom. A recent study using zebrafish larvae has revealed the underlying neural logic of this primal choice behavior, by differential use of the retinal ON- and OFF-pathways.
