“It was exciting to find that the neurons responsible for learning in the spinal cord — the dorsal horn ... the small number of neurons in larval zebrafish necessary for motion processing ...

In vertebrates, neurons in the spinal cord help generate movements and are modulated by inputs from the brain. We use zebrafish, a tiny, transparent vertebrate to study motor coordination. Spinal ...

The top image shows fluorescently labeled cells in the spinal cord of a zebrafish recovering one week after an injury, and the bottom image shows recovery four weeks after an injury. Researchers ...

To test this striking statement, I aimed to show that the neural circuitry that underlies a complex, well-studied behavior in zebrafish can emerge without any learning.” Zebrafish are widely ...