Check out our preprint in which we describe the neural circuits that control two types of saccadic eye movement. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.12.607184
When they’re hunting, zebrafish generate a specialised type of saccadic eye movement which differs from those used during routine visual exploration. We discover that these saccades are controlled by topographically organised subsets of motoneurons that are in turn controlled by two parallel premotor pathways — one is a generalist pathway used for all types of saccade and second is an action-specific pathway dedicated to hunting.
Congratulations to first author Charlie Dowell on a fantastic paper.