Topic: Behavioral tracking

Animals use their whole body to navigate their environment and solve tasks. Zebrafish (Dario rerio) need to coordinate tail and fin movements and can serve as a model organism for the study of locomotion and locomotion generation and dysregulation. Behavioral tracking of zebrafish has usually restricted itself to tracking in the (x,y) plane with an overhead camera. This precludes studies that investigate postural control or navigation in naturalistic, three-dimensional conditions. To study full body coordination we built a rig that allows us to track larval zebrafish in 3D with high resolution