A Reproducible Protocol to Measure the Critical Swimming Speed of Adult Zebrafish

Yuma Wakamatsu; Makoto Kashima; Hiromi Hirata

doi:10.21769/BioProtoc.3712

A Reproducible Protocol to Measure the Critical Swimming Speed of Adult Zebrafish

Bio Protoc. 2020 Aug 20;10(16):e3712. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3712.

Authors

Yuma Wakamatsu¹, Makoto Kashima¹, Hiromi Hirata¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biological Science, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara 252-5258, Japan.

Abstract

The quantitative measurement of water flow-induced swimming of fish species using a swimmill is a powerful method to evaluate motor ability of individual fish. Zebrafish is a commonly used vertebrate that enables the study of morphological, physiological and behavioral characteristics associated with genes. We here established a reproducible method that allows to measure the body length and the critical swimming speed of adult zebrafish using a swimmill.

Keywords: Motor; Speed; Swimmill; Swimming; Zebrafish.