Video equipment for comparative physiology studies that integrate behaviour

比较生理学家越来越认识到将行为测量纳入他们的研究的必要性。然而，他们的实验室通常没有检测行为所需的设备，这就是目前应用程序的动机，该应用程序来自一个由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融入鱼类和两栖动物生理学的研究。所要求的设备将支持研究项目，以检查(a)鱼类社会行为的生理成本，(b)弱电鱼类在社会互动中参与电子通信，(c)使用水面呼吸作为鱼类对低氧水平的行为和呼吸反应，(d)蟾蜍鱼对尿素脉冲的行为反应，(e)斑马鱼帕金森病模型的游泳行为和逃避反应。(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.