Functional heterogeneity of dorsal raphe nucleus is not fully understood. Here authors show topographically organized sensory and locomotor responses from the zebrafish dorsal raphe and its forebrain ...

Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human.

The hippocampus exhibits a CA3-to-CA1 coding transformation that combines fast learning with an efficient, compressed neural code.

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A University of Basel study shows how different diets shape the evolution of intestinal cells in cichlid fishes.

Grätsch et al. examine nest-building behavior in the shell-dwelling cichlid Lamprologus ocellatus. Nest building follows a stereotyped sequence of innate behavioral motifs that improve with experience...

Single-molecule force spectroscopy probes chromatin mechanics by resolving force-induced conformational transitions across multiple length scales. Rec…

Gene expression patterns underlie development, but their systematic detection in whole embryos has remained elusive. We introduce a whole-embryo imaging platform using multiplexed error-robust fluores...

Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that specifically infect bacteria and play a central role in shaping microbial communities and bacterial evolution. Beyond t...

Animals reprioritize behavioral goals in response to internal physiological states. Using larval zebrafish, we investigated whether engagement with a …

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Zada, Kadobianskyi et al. develop methods for measuring and manipulating gene expression in the schooling glassfish Danionella cerebrum, identifying circadian genes and the thyroid-klf9-atp1a1 pathway as commonly regulated across multiple models of impaired or immature collective behavior.

Since their inception, DNA origami nanostructures (DONs) have attracted great interest for their programmable geometry, nanoscale precision, and biocompatibility. Here, we present mechanoresponsive DO...

Using two-photon microscopy with a panoramic virtual reality setup, how head direction cells in larval zebrafish integrate visual landmarks and optic flow to track orientation is revealed.

The Elkouby Lab Illuminating unpredicted cellular machineries in gonad development, germ cell production, and reproduction A Journey to Before the Beginning of Life Exploring the Unknown Developing eg...

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How are various visual signals integrated in the vertebrate brain for navigation? Here authors show that different spatial signals are topographically organized and align to one another in the zebrafi...