Event Abstract Back to Event A Generalized Neural Circuit that Specifically Enhances the Probability of Predation Success in the African butterfly fish William Saidel1, 2* 1 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Biology, United States 2 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, United States The diencephalic Nucleus Rostrolateralis (RL) in the African butterfly fish (Pantodon buchholzi) has few equals. It is a brain nucleus that has been identified in less than two dozen of the ~25000 species of fishes. Located in the rostrolateral diencephalon, this nucleus receives direct and indirect visual input from the superior visual field. Its lack of precedent or consistent phylogenetic expression creates a difficulty in interpreting the functional role of this nucleus in the visual pathway. By tracing experiments, RL was found to be afferent to Nucleus Interpeduncularis (IP) and the target of cells in the ventral pallium of the telencephalon. RL appears to be a component of a descending limbic pathway involved in at least one behavior associated at the intersection of limbic and somatic activities - predatory feeding. The parallelism between the ventral pallium - RL - IP and telencephalon - habenula - IP pathway (the Dorsal Diencephalic Conducting System) suggests that RL is a component of the DDCP and is potentially involved with increasing predation success by enhancing motor actions. Acknowledgements This work was supported in part by a grant from the Charles and Johanna Busch Memorial Fund at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. I thank Dr. Ann Butler of the Krasnow Institute, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, for the years of insightful discussions about this system. Keywords: African butterfly fish, DiI tract tracing, Dorsal Diencephalic Conducting System, Nucleus Interpeduncularis, Nucleus Rostrolateralis Conference: Tenth International Congress of Neuroethology, College Park. Maryland USA, United States, 5 Aug - 10 Aug, 2012. Presentation Type: Poster (but consider for Participant Symposium) Topic: Sensorimotor Integration Citation: Saidel W (2012). A Generalized Neural Circuit that Specifically Enhances the Probability of Predation Success in the African butterfly fish. Conference Abstract: Tenth International Congress of Neuroethology. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00182 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 28 Apr 2012; Published Online: 07 Jul 2012. * Correspondence: Prof. William Saidel, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Biology, Camden, NJ, 08102, United States, saidel@camden.rutgers.edu Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers William Saidel Google William Saidel Google Scholar William Saidel PubMed William Saidel Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.