Video equipment for comparative physiology studies that integrate behaviour

比较生理学家越来越认识到需要将行为测量纳入他们的研究。 然而，通常情况下，在他们的实验室中无法获得测定行为所需的设备，这就是本申请的动机，本申请来自一组6名比较生理学家，他们需要视频设备和水听器来支持他们将行为整合到鱼类和两栖动物的生理学中的研究。 所要求的设备将支持研究方案，研究（a）鱼类社会行为的生理代价，（B）弱电鱼类社会互动中的电通信，（c）鱼类使用水面呼吸作为对低氧水平的行为和解释反应，（d）蟾鱼对尿素脉冲的行为反应，（e）帕金森病斑马鱼模型的游泳行为和逃避反应，以及（f）蝌蚪的听觉交流。

Comparative physiologists increasingly are recognizing the need to incorporate measures of behaviour into their studies. Often, however, the equipment needed to assay behaviour is not available in their labs, and that is the motivation for the present application, which comes from a group of 6 comparative physiologists who require video equipment and hydrophones to support their studies integrating behaviour into the physiology of fish and amphibians. The requested equipment will support research programs that examine (a) the physiological costs of social behaviour in fish, (b) the involvement of electric communication in social interactions in weakly electric fish, (c) the use of surface breathing as a behavioural and ventilatory response to low oxygen levels in fish, (d) behavioural responses to urea pulsing in toadfish, (e) swimming behaviour and escape responses in a zebrafish model of Parkinson's disease, and (f) auditory communication in tadpoles.