The development of the entire zebrafish spinal cord, from neurogenesis to the emergence of spontaneous motor behavior, is visualized, quantitatively analyzed at the single-cell level, and perturbed to reveal how patterned neuronal activity in the earliest functioning circuit—the motor circuit—is initiated and coordinated during embryogenesis. Check out the paper at: http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S00....

Y. Wan, Z. Wei, L.L. Looger, M. Koyama, S. Druckman, and P.J. Keller (2019). Single-Cell Reconstruction of Emerging Population Activity in an Entire Developing Circuit. Cell 179.

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