Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Activation of the hypothalamic feeding centre upon visual prey detection

  • Akira Muto,
  • Pradeep Lal,
  • Deepak Ailani,
  • Gembu Abe,
  • Mari Itoh,
  • Koichi Kawakami

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15029
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Hypothalamus is important for regulating feeding behaviour. Here the authors report genetic identification of neurons in the pretecto-hypothalamic circuit, and their causal involvement in prey detection and prey capture, using a combination of functional imaging and ablation studies in freely swimming zebrafish larvae.