Rheotaxis
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Rheotaxis
© Pablo Oteiza
In response to incoming water flows, aquatic animals hold position by orienting and swimming against the current in a conserved behavior known as rheotaxis. Using custom-built experimental rigs, machine vision techniques and unsupervised behavioral analyses, we aim to identify the conserved algorithms fish and amphibians use to perform this ethologically relevant behavior.