Department of Zoology and Physiology, and Program in Neuroscience, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
Department of Zoology and Physiology, and Program in Neuroscience, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
STAR Protoc. 2023 Sep 15;4(3):102422. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102422. Epub 2023 Jul 12.
Xenopus tadpoles display innate visually guided behaviors which are thought to promote survival by guiding them toward sources of food and away from predators. Experimentally, studying these behaviors can provide insight into the formation and function of the neural circuits which underlie them. Here, we present a protocol for measuring visual preferences of freely swimming tadpoles. We describe steps to create the visual stimuli, carry out the experiments, and analyze the resulting data. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Hunt et al. and Bruno et al..
非洲爪蟾蝌蚪表现出先天的视觉引导行为，这些行为被认为可以通过引导它们寻找食物来源和远离捕食者来促进生存。在实验中，研究这些行为可以深入了解构成它们的神经回路的形成和功能。在这里，我们提供了一种测量自由游动的蝌蚪视觉偏好的方法。我们描述了创建视觉刺激、进行实验和分析结果数据的步骤。有关此协议的使用和执行的完整详细信息，请参考 Hunt 等人和 Bruno 等人的研究。
