Further cements #danionella as a robust model to study neurobiology 💪 🧪

How do fish localize sound without interaural cues? @johve.bsky.social et al. found a behavioral algorithm for directional hearing that predicts behavior from a pressure/motion phase comparison and accounts for how this relationship varies with distance. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Tiny, transparent, and now charted! Our brain atlas of adult Danionella cerebrum includes >200 annotated regions, 29 whole-brain in situs, and male/female reference volumes – openly available, versioned and extendable. Work by @nkadobyansky.bsky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our new paper is out @mirkuz12 #zebrafish #danionella #number #numbersense cell.com/star-protoco...

Beautiful work led by Yansong (Kevin) Lu on skeletal muscle growth in zebrafish, giant danio, Danionella cerebrum, and killifish. HCR, new image analysis tool, scRNA-seq, and CRISPR. New international collaborations between Uni Melbourne, NCVC/Osaka, Stanford & ARMI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Whole-body Single-cell Spatial transcriptomic atlas of adult Danionella ~1 cm long scRNAseq MERFISH (500-gene) HCR Endothelial cell podxl+ (Fig S8) Vascular vs Visceral mural cell (Fig S10) Peter Reddien lab bioRxiv 2026 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our latest study on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now posted as a preprint, led by UCSD PhD student Jo-Hsien Yu @anitajhyu.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @danionella.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out in Current Biology, by Ari Penalva and the Douglass lab: "Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in [☝️]": www.cell.com/current-biol... With a preview by Florian Engert: www.cell.com/current-biol...

#Danionella in the creature column www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For today's #fluorescenceFriday, a transgenic Danionella cerebrum, the world's (second) smallest vertebrate (yep, "stout infantfish" are smaller, but no one has made them glow yet!). Picci by our very own @xinwei-wang.bsky.social

New work with @danionella.bsky.social from Naumann Lab @dukemedschool.bsky.social

Divergent Visuomotor Strategies in Teleosts: Neural Circuit Mechanisms in Zebrafish and Danionella cerebrum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.22.624938v1

Switched waters to Bluesky. Still singing, still transparent, and back to having the smallest vertebrate brain around.