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Visuomotor Behaviors in Larval Zebrafish after GFP-Guided Laser Ablation of the Optic Tectum
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The optic tectum is the largest visual center in most vertebrates and the main target for retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) conveying visual information from the eye to the brain. The retinotectal projection has served as an important model in many areas of developmental neuroscience. However, knowledge of the function of the tectum is limited. We began to address this issue using laser ablations and subsequent behavioral testing in zebrafish. We used a transgenic zebrafish line that expresses green-fluorescent protein in RGCs projecting to the tectum. By aiming a laser beam at the labeled retinal fibers demarcating the tectal neuropil, the larval tectum could be selectively destroyed. We tested whether tectum-ablated zebrafish larvae, when presented with large-field movements in their surroundings, displayed optokinetic responses (OKR) or optomotor responses (OMR), two distinct visuomotor behaviors that compensate for self-motion. Neither OKR nor OMR were found to be dependent on intact retinotectal connections. Also, visual acuity remained unaffected. Tectum ablation, however, slowed down the OKR by reducing the frequency of saccades but left tracking velocity, gain, and saccade amplitude unaffected. Removal of the tectum had no effect on the processing of second-order motion, to which zebrafish show both OKR and OMR, suggesting that the tectum is not an integral part of the circuit that extracts higher-order cues in the motion pathway.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Roeser, T., & Baier, H.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- ORCID
- Baier, Herwig
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2003-05-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 3726-3734
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6742205
- OpenAlex
- W2150958067
- Semantic Scholar
- fe7a175f2bfdb09b95fe04e44714ab7c8b7a31ac
- Cited by
- 222
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
- National Institutes of Health
- National Eye Institute (R01EY012406)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Keywords
- optic tectum, retinotectal projection, zebrafish larvae, optokinetic response, optomotor response, visuomotor behavior, laser ablation, retinal ganglion cells, saccades, visual acuity, second-order motion
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Behavior, Animal, Cues, Eye Movements, Larva, Luminescent Proteins, Motion Perception, Retinal Ganglion Cells, Saccades, Superior Colliculi, Visual Acuity, Visual Pathways, Zebrafish, Animals, Genetically Modified, Green Fluorescent Proteins, Laser Therapy
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