Video equipment for comparative physiology studies that integrate behaviour

比较生理学家越来越多地认识到有必要将行为测量纳入他们的研究。然而，通常情况下，他们的实验室没有分析行为所需的设备，这就是本申请的动机，该申请来自一个由6名比较生理学家组成的小组，他们需要视频设备和水听器来支持他们将行为纳入鱼类和两栖动物生理学的研究。所要求的设备将支持以下研究项目：(A)鱼的社会行为的生理成本，(B)弱电鱼类的电交流参与社会互动，(C)使用表面呼吸作为鱼对低氧水平的行为和换气反应，(D)蟾鱼对尿素脉冲的行为反应，(E)帕金森氏病斑马鱼模型中的游泳行为和逃逸反应，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.