Neurons Firing (VIDEO)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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These red and yellow flashes show neural activity in the zebrafish spinal cord, pictured here 24 hours after fertilization. The imaging reveals the neural activity patterns underlying the spontaneous coiling movements that precede coordinated swimming behavior in young zebrafish.

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Yinan Wan et al./<i>Cell</i> 2019

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