Zebrafish reveal exquisite workings of the brain
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 18:50
in Biology & Nature
A tiny, translucent juvenile zebrafish, on the hunt for even littler prey, has offered up a big insight into how a specific circuit of nerve cells functions in the brain. The technique used to illuminate this circuitry, and the fish model itself, provide one of the first insights into the way individual sets of neurons control a specific behavior.