Meeting Abstract
Behavioral biologists have a strong interest in studying the behavior of larval zebrafish because the limited number of locomotor neurons in larval zebrafish coupled with the still rich repertoire of movements of a vertebrate animal. Current research uses a priori-selected parameters to describe their movements. Most research also considers only the 2D movements of zebrafish, leaving out the vertical component of their locomotion. Our lab has developed a method to reduce the dimensionality of the locomotion of zebrafish and achieved desirable results on 2D swimming movies. We are extending this work to capture 3D locomotion of zebrafish larvae. Here we present our preliminary analysis of the 3D locomotion of zebrafish.
