Environmental and Molecular Modulation of Motor Individuality in Larval Zebrafish
Innate behavioral biases such as human handedness are a ubiquitous form of inter-individual variation that are not strictly hardwired into the genome and are influenced by diverse internal and external cues. Yet, genetic and environmental factors modulating behavioral variation remain poorly underst...
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520 | 3 | |a Innate behavioral biases such as human handedness are a ubiquitous form of inter-individual variation that are not strictly hardwired into the genome and are influenced by diverse internal and external cues. Yet, genetic and environmental factors modulating behavioral variation remain poorly understood, especially in vertebrates. To identify genetic and environmental factors that influence behavioral variation, we take advantage of larval zebrafish light-search behavior. During light-search, individuals preferentially turn in leftward or rightward loops, in which directional bias is sustained and non-heritable. Our previous work has shown that bias is maintained by a habenula-rostral PT circuit and genes associated with Notch signaling. Here we use a medium-throughput recording strategy and unbiased analysis to show that significant individual to individual variation exists in wildtype larval zebrafish turning preference. We classify stable left, right, and unbiased turning types, with most individuals exhibiting a directional preference. We show unbiased behavior is not due to a loss of photo-responsiveness but reduced persistence in same-direction turning. Raising larvae at elevated temperature selectively reduces the leftward turning type and impacts rostral PT neurons, specifically. Exposure to conspecifics, variable salinity, environmental enrichment, and physical disturbance does not significantly impact inter-individual turning bias. Pharmacological manipulation of Notch signaling disrupts habenula development and turn bias individuality in a dose dependent manner, establishing a direct role of Notch signaling. Last, a mutant allele of a known Notch pathway affecter gene, gsx2, disrupts turn bias individuality, implicating that brain regions independent of the previously established habenula-rostral PT likely contribute to inter-individual variation. These results establish that larval zebrafish is a powerful vertebrate model for inter-individual variation with established neural targets showing sensitivity to specific environmental and gene signaling disruptions. Our results provide new insight into how variation is generated in the vertebrate nervous system. Copyright © 2021 Hageter, Waalkes, Starkey, Copeland, Price, Bays, Showman, Laverty, Bergeron and Horstick. | |
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700 | 1 | |a Bays, L. |e author | |
700 | 1 | |a Bergeron, S.A. |e author | |
700 | 1 | |a Copeland, H. |e author | |
700 | 1 | |a Hageter, J. |e author | |
700 | 1 | |a Horstick, E.J. |e author | |
700 | 1 | |a Laverty, S. |e author | |
700 | 1 | |a Price, H. |e author | |
700 | 1 | |a Showman, C. |e author | |
700 | 1 | |a Starkey, J. |e author | |
700 | 1 | |a Waalkes, M. |e author | |
773 | |t Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |