How is the collective behavior of fish modulated by flow and illumination? While the literature has explored the role of each of these factors individually, there has been no effort that looked at their combined effect on collective behavior.
Our Postdoctoral Associate Daniel Burbano-Lombana (now Assistant Professor at Rutgers University) and Prof. Maurizio Porfiri in their newest research published in Behavioural Processes, explore how various combinations of altered flow and illumination conditions affect swimming patterns in pairs of zebrafish.
Read the full paper “Collective response of zebrafish to combined manipulations of illumination and flow” here.
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