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The French press: a repeatable and high-throughput approach to exercising zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Overview of attention for article published in PeerJ, January 2018
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Title
The French press: a repeatable and high-throughput approach to exercising zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Published in
PeerJ, January 2018
DOI 10.7717/peerj.4292
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Takuji Usui, Daniel W.A. Noble, Rose E. O’Dea, Melissa L. Fangmeier, Malgorzata Lagisz, Daniel Hesselson, Shinichi Nakagawa

Abstract

Zebrafish are increasingly used as a vertebrate model organism for various traits including swimming performance, obesity and metabolism, necessitating high-throughput protocols to generate standardized phenotypic information. Here, we propose a novel and cost-effective method for exercising zebrafish, using a coffee plunger and magnetic stirrer. To demonstrate the use of this method, we conducted a pilot experiment to show that this simple system provides repeatable estimates of maximal swim performance (intra-class correlation [ICC] = 0.34-0.41) and observe that exercise training of zebrafish on this system significantly increases their maximum swimming speed. We propose this high-throughput and reproducible system as an alternative to traditional linear chamber systems for exercising zebrafish and similarly sized fishes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 35 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 29%
Student > Master 5 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 11%
Researcher 4 11%
Other 1 3%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 6 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 34%
Neuroscience 5 14%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 6%
Engineering 2 6%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 10 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 December 2020.
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#895,448
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#921
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#21,273
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Outputs of similar age from PeerJ
#34
of 337 outputs
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