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Study links neural detection of alarm behaviour to fish schooling escape response

Researchers studying zebrafish (referred to in the methods as D. cerebrum) examined how neurons detect social actions of other fish to coordinate group escape responses. The work combined behavioural tracking with brain imaging using a transgenic calcium-indicator line, observing fish from larval stages through adulthood in controlled lab conditions.