Bio-Protocol (Aug 2020)

A Reproducible Protocol to Measure the Critical Swimming Speed of Adult Zebrafish

  • Yuma Wakamatsu,
  • Makoto Kashima,
  • Hiromi Hirata

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.3712
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 16

Abstract

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The quantitative measurement of water flow-induced swimming of fish species using a swimmill is a powerful method to evaluate motor ability of individual fish. Zebrafish is a commonly used vertebrate that enables the study of morphological, physiological and behavioral characteristics associated with genes. We here established a reproducible method that allows to measure the body length and the critical swimming speed of adult zebrafish using a swimmill.