Hierarchical compression reveals sub-second to day-long structure in larval zebrafish behavior
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Author(s)
Ghosh, Marcus
Rihel, Jason
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Animal behavior is dynamic, evolving over multiple timescales from milliseconds to days and even across a lifetime. To understand the mechanisms governing these dynamics, it is necessary to capture multi-timescale structure from behavioral data. Here, we develop computational tools and study the behavior of hundreds of larval zebrafish tracked continuously across multiple 24-h day/night cycles. We extracted millions of movements and pauses, termed bouts, and used unsupervised learning to reduce each larva's behavior to an alternating sequence of active and inactive bout types, termed modules. Through hierarchical compression, we identified recurrent behavioral patterns, termed motifs. Module and motif usage varied across the day/night cycle, revealing structure at sub-second to day-long timescales. We further demonstrate that module and motif analysis can uncover novel pharmacological and genetic mutant phenotypes. Overall, our work reveals the organization of larval zebrafish behavior at multiple timescales and provides tools to identify structure from large-scale behavioral datasets.
Date Issued
2020-07-01
Date Acceptance
2020-02-26
Citation
eNeuro, 2020, 7 (4)
ISSN
2373-2822
Publisher
Society for Neuroscience
Journal / Book Title
eNeuro
Volume
7
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Ghosh and Rihel This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.
License URL
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32241874
PII: ENEURO.0408-19.2020
Subjects
behavioral dynamics
sleep
zebrafish
Animals
Behavior, Animal
Larva
Phenotype
Zebrafish
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Date Publish Online
2021-04-02