Locomotor maturation during early development in a small vertebrate
Monica Coraggioso, Leonardo Demarchi, Thomas Panier, Ghislaine Morvan-Dubois, Filippo Del Bene, Volker Bormuth, Georges Debrégeas · FENS Forum 2024
Most animals are born with a minimal repertoire of behaviors, which is gradually expanded as they grow and adapt to their changing needs, environments, and body morphology. The emergence of new functional capacities is associated with changes in the brain architecture, as new neurons become functional and new connections are formed. How brain maturation orchestrates phenotypic transformations during development is still an open question in behavioral neuroscience. Here, we investigate this question in Danionella cerebrum, a novel vertebrate model whose brain remains small and transparent up to
ePoster · Neuroscience