Book Section
Recording acoustic behavior in Astyanax mexicanus fish: Acquisition, decryption, and interpretation
Hyacinthe, C.
Record Number:
6054
Year:
2023
Pages:
273-287
Editor:
Wang, W., Rohner, N. and Wang, Y
Publisher:
Springer
Book Title:
Emerging model organisms
Abstract:
Acoustic communication, a key feature in social animals involving exchange of information between congeners, or with individuals of other species, can be studied in experimentally controlled conditions as well as in freely behaving individuals in natural contexts. Integrative approaches, coupling transdisciplinary knowledge from neuroscience, physics, and refined computational spectral decoding, have recently allowed a better structural decryption of species-specific sounds associated with basic or complex behaviors. Here are described gold-standard procedures to synchronize underwater sound and video acquisition, subsequent sound and behavioral analysis, and quantification, with playback functional response assays in the surface and cave morphotype of Astyanax mexicanus in a laboratory context. The goal is to provide procedures on how to apply both qualitative and quantitative video–sound recordings to study acoustic behaviors and communication in fish and highlight advantages and limitations of the approach.
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