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Spherical arena reveals optokinetic response tuning to stimulus location, size, and frequency across entire visual field of larval zebrafish

  1. Florian Alexander Dehmelt
  2. Rebecca Meier
  3. Julian Hinz
  4. Takeshi Yoshimatsu
  5. Clara A Simacek
  6. Ruoyu Huang
  7. Kun Wang
  8. Tom Baden
  9. Aristides B Arrenberg  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Tuebingen, Germany
  2. University of Sussex, UK, United Kingdom
  3. University of Sussex, United Kingdom
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63355
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  1. Florian Alexander Dehmelt
  2. Rebecca Meier
  3. Julian Hinz
  4. Takeshi Yoshimatsu
  5. Clara A Simacek
  6. Ruoyu Huang
  7. Kun Wang
  8. Tom Baden
  9. Aristides B Arrenberg
(2021)
Spherical arena reveals optokinetic response tuning to stimulus location, size, and frequency across entire visual field of larval zebrafish
eLife 10:e63355.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63355
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Abstract

Many animals have large visual fields, and sensory circuits may sample those regions of visual space most relevant to behaviours such as gaze stabilisation and hunting. Despite this, relatively small displays are often used in vision neuroscience. To sample stimulus locations across most of the visual field, we built a spherical stimulus arena with 14,848 independently controllable LEDs. We measured the optokinetic response gain of immobilised zebrafish larvae to stimuli of different steradian size and visual field locations. We find that the two eyes are less yoked than previously thought and that spatial frequency tuning is similar across visual field positions. However, zebrafish react most strongly to lateral, nearly equatorial stimuli, consistent with previously reported spatial densities of red, green and blue photoreceptors. Upside-down experiments suggest further extra-retinal processing. Our results demonstrate that motion vision circuits in zebrafish are anisotropic, and preferentially monitor areas with putative behavioural relevance.

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  1. Florian Alexander Dehmelt

    Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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  2. Rebecca Meier

    Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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  3. Julian Hinz

    Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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  4. Takeshi Yoshimatsu

    School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK, Brighton, United Kingdom
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  5. Clara A Simacek

    Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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  6. Ruoyu Huang

    Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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  7. Kun Wang

    Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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  8. Tom Baden

    School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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  9. Aristides B Arrenberg

    Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (EXC307 (Werner-Reichardt-Centrum))

  • Aristides B Arrenberg

Human Frontier Science Program (Young Investigator Grant RGY0079)

  • Aristides B Arrenberg

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: Animal experiments were performed in accordance with licenses granted by local government authorities (Regierungspräsidium Tübingen) in accordance with German federal law and Baden-Württemberg state law. Approval of this license followed consultation of both in-house animal welfare officers and an external ethics board appointed by the local government.

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© 2021, Dehmelt et al.

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  1. Florian Alexander Dehmelt
  2. Rebecca Meier
  3. Julian Hinz
  4. Takeshi Yoshimatsu
  5. Clara A Simacek
  6. Ruoyu Huang
  7. Kun Wang
  8. Tom Baden
  9. Aristides B Arrenberg
(2021)
Spherical arena reveals optokinetic response tuning to stimulus location, size, and frequency across entire visual field of larval zebrafish
eLife 10:e63355.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63355

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