Identification of a neuronal population in the telencephalon essential for fear conditioning in zebrafish.
Pradeep LalHideyuki TanabeMaximiliano L SusterDeepak AilaniYuri KotaniAkira MutoMari ItohMiki IwasakiHironori WadaEmre YaksiKoichi KawakamiPublished in: BMC biology (2018)
Herein, we identified a subpopulation of neurons in the zebrafish Dm essential for fear conditioning. We propose that these are functional equivalents of neurons in the mammalian pallial amygdala, mediating the conditioned stimulus-unconditioned stimulus association. Thus, the study establishes a basis for understanding the evolutionary conservation and diversification of functional neural circuits mediating fear conditioning in vertebrates.