Fetcho, J.R. and D.M. O'Malley (1995) Visualization of active neural circuitry in the spinal cord of intact zebrafish. J. Neurophysiol. 73:399-406.
Svoboda, K.R. and J.R. Fetcho (1996) Interactions between the neural networks for escape and swimming in goldfish. J. Neurosci. 16:843-852.
Cox, K.J.A and J.R. Fetcho (1996) Labeling blastomeres with a calcium indicator: a non-invasive method of visualizing neural activity in zebrafish. J. Neurosci. Meth. 68:185-191.
O'Malley, D.M.O., Y-H Kao and J.R. Fetcho (1996) Imaging the functional organization of zebrafish hindbrain segments during escape behaviors. Neuron. 17: 1145-1155.
Fetcho, J.R., K.J.A. Cox and D.M. O'Malley (1997) Imaging neural activity with single cell resolution in an intact behaving vertebrate. Biological Bulletin 192:150-153.
Fetcho, J.R. and D.M. O'Malley (1997) Imaging neuronal networks in behaving animals. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 7:832-838.
Fetcho, J.R., K.J.A. Cox and D.M.O'Malley (1998) Monitoring activity in neuronal populations with single cell resolution in a behaving vertebrate. Histochemical J. 30:153-167.
Fetcho, J.R. and K.S. Liu (1998) Zebrafish as a model system for studying neuronal circuits and behavior. Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 860:333-345.
Fetcho, J.R. (1998) Movement through the last decade. Neuron 21:477-478.
Liu, K.S. and J.R. Fetcho (1999) Laser ablations reveal functional relationships of segmental hindbrain neurons in zebrafish. Neuron 23:325-335.
O'Malley D.M. and J.R. Fetcho (2000), The Zebrafish Hindbrain: A transparent system for imaging motor circuitry. In "Imaging Living Cells", Eds. R. Yuste, F. Lanni and A. Konnerth,Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, CSH, NY.pp.14.1-14.12.
Fetcho JR (2001) Optical and genetic approaches toward understanding spinal circuits. In: Motor Neurobiology of the Spinal Cord (Cope TC, ed), pp 3-20. Boca Raton, FL.: CRC Press.
Lorent, K., K.S. Liu, J.R. Fetcho and M. Granato (2001) The zebrafish space cadet gene controls axonal pathfinding of neurons modulating fast turning movements. Development. 128:2131-2142.
Ono, F., S. Higashijima, A. Shcherbatko, J. Fetcho, and P. Brehm (2001) Paralytic zebrafish lacking acetylcholine receptors fail to localize rapsyn clusters to the synapse. J. Neurosci 21:5439-5448.
Hale, M.E., Ritter, D.A., and Fetcho, J.R. (2001) A confocal study of spinal interneurons in living larval zebrafish. J. Comp. Neurol. 437:1-16
D. A. Ritter, D. H. Bhatt and J. R. Fetcho. (2001) In vivo imaging of zebrafish reveals differences in the spinal networks for escape and swimming movements. J. Neuroscience. 21:8956-8965.
Gleason, M.R., S. Higashijima, J. Dallman, K. Liu, G. Mandel and J.R. Fetcho (2003) Translocation of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II to synaptic sites in vivo. Nature Neuroscience. 6: 217-218.
Higashijima, S., M.A. Masino, G. Mandel and J.R. Fetcho (2003) Imaging neuronal activity during zebrafish behavior with a genetically encoded calcium indicator. J. Neurophysiol. 90:3986-3997.
Liu, K, M. Gray, S. Otto, J.R. Fetcho and C.E. Beattie (2003) Mutations in deadly seven/notch1a reveal developmental plasticity in the escape response Circuit. J. Neurosci. 23:8159-8166
Armisen R, Gleason MR, Fetcho JR, Mandel G (2004) Tracking molecules in intact zebrafish. In: Imaging in Neuroscience and development: A laboratory Manual (Yuste R, Konnerth A, eds), pp 623-626. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Bhatt DH, Otto SJ, Depoister B, Fetcho JR (2004) Cyclic AMP-induced repair of zebrafish spinal circuits. Science 305:254-258.
Fetcho JR (2004) Imaging neuronal activity with calcium indicators in larval zebrafish. In: Imaging in Neuroscience and development: A laboratory Manual (Yuste R, Konnerth A, eds), pp 707-710. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Higashijima S, Masino MA, Mandel G, Fetcho JR (2004) Engrailed-1 expression marks a primitive class of inhibitory spinal interneuron. J Neurosci 24:5827-5839.
Higashijima SI, Schaefer M, Fetcho JR (2004) Neurotransmitter properties of spinal interneurons in embryonic and larval zebrafish. J Comp Neurol 480:19-37.
Higashijima SI, Mandel G, Fetcho JR (2004) Distribution of prospective glutamatergic, glycinergic, and GABAergic neurons in embryonic and larval zebrafish. J Comp Neurol 480:1-18.
McLean DL, Fetcho JR (2004a) Ontogeny and innervation patterns of dopaminergic, noradrenergic, and serotonergic neurons in larval zebrafish. J Comp Neurol 480:38-56.
McLean DL, Fetcho JR (2004b) Relationship of tyrosine hydroxylase and serotonin immunoreactivity to sensorimotor circuitry in larval zebrafish. J Comp Neurol 480:57-71.
Fetcho JR, Bhatt DH (2004) Genes and photons: new avenues into the neuronal basis of behavior. Curr Opin Neurobiol 14:707-714.
Fetcho JR, Higashijima S (2004) Optical and genetic approaches toward understanding neuronal circuits in zebrafish. Integr Comp Biol 44:57-70.
Masino, M, Fetcho JR (2005) Fictive swimming motor patterns in wild type and mutant larval zebrafish. J. Neurophysiol. 93:3177-3188.
Li, J, Mack, JA, Souren, M, Yaksi, E, Higashijima, S, Mione, M, Fetcho, JR, Friedrich, RW (2005) Early developmental of functional spatial maps in the zebrafish olfactory bulb. J. Neurosci. 25:5784-5795.
Pogoda, H. M., N. Sternheim,, D.A. Lyons, B. Diamond, T. A Hawkins, , I. G., Woods, D. H., Bhatt, , C.], Franzini-Armstrong, C. Dominguez, N . Arana, J. Jacobs, R. Nix, J.R. Fetcho, and W.S. Talbot (2006) A genetic screen identifies genes essential for development of myelinated axons in zebrafish. Dev Biol. 298, 118-31.
Fetcho, J. R. (2006) Using zebrafish to image the structure and function of neuronal networks in vivo. In: Using zebrafish to study Neuroscience. (Nicolson T. ed) pp. 23-31. Atlanta, GA: Society for Neuroscience.
Bhatt, D. H., D.L. McLean, M.E. Hale and J.R. Fetcho (2007) Grading movement strength by changes in firing intensity versus recruitment of spinal interneurons. Neuron. 53:91-102.
McLean, D.L, J. Fan, SI Higashijima, M.E. Hale, J.R. Fetcho (2007) A topographic map of recruitment in spinal cord. Nature. 446:71-75
Fetcho, J. R. (2007) The utility of zebrafish for studies of the comparative biology of motor systems. J Exp Zoolog B Mol Dev Evol. 308:550-562.
Bhatt, D.H., H. Patzelova, D.L. McLean, J.R. Fetcho and S.J. Zottoli (2007) Functional Regeneration in the Larval Zebrafish Spinal Cord. In: Model Organisms in Spinal Regeneration. (C.G. Becker and T. Becker eds.) pp. 263-288. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co.
Liao, J.C. and J.R. Fetcho (2008) Shared versus specialized glycinergic interneurons in axial motor circuits of larval zebrafish. J. Neurosci. 28: 12982-12992.
McLean, D.L., Masino, M.A., Koh, I.Y.Y., Lindquist, W.B. and J. R. Fetcho (2008) Continuous shifts in the active set of spinal interneurons during changes in locomotor speed. Nature Neuroscience. 11:1419-1429.
Fetcho J.R., Higashijima S, McLean D.L. (2008) Zebrafish and motor control over the last decade. Brain Res Rev. 57(1):86-93
McLean, D.L. and J.R. Fetcho (2008) Using Imaging and genetics in zebrafish to study developing spinal circuits in vivo. Dev. Neurobiol. 68:817-834.
Mongeon, R., Gleason, M.R., Masino, M.A., Fetcho, J.R., Mandel, G., Brehm, P. and Dallman, J.E. (2008) Synaptic homeostasis in a zebrafish glial glycine transporter mutant. J. Neurophysiology. 100: 1716-1723.
McLean, D.L. and J.R. Fetcho (2009) Spinal interneurons differentiate sequentially from those driving the fastest swimming movements in larval zebrafish to those driving the slowest ones. J. Neurosci. 29:13566-13577.
McLean, D.L and J.R. Fetcho (2010) Movement technology and discovery in the zebrafish. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 21:110-115.
Fetcho, J.R. and D.L McLean (2010) Some principles of organization of spinal neurons underlying locomotion in zebrafish and their implications. Ann. NY Acad Sci. 1198:94-104.
Kinkhabwala A, Riley M, Koyama M, Monen J, Satou C, Kimura Y, Higashijima S, and J. Fetcho (2011) A structural and functional ground plan for neurons in the hindbrain of zebrafish. PNAS 108:1164-9.
Koyama M, Kinkhabwala A, Satou C, Higashijima S, and J. Fetcho (2011) Mapping a sensory-motor network onto a structural and functional ground plan in the hindbrain. PNAS 108:1170-5.
Fetcho, J.R. (2012) Neuroscience: Crystal clear brains. Nature 23;485(7399):453-5.
Kishore, S. and JR Fetcho (2013) Homestatic regulation of dendritic dynamics in a motor map in vivo. Nature Communications. 4, Article number:2086
Koyama M, Minale F, Shum J, Nishimura N, Schaffer CB, Fetcho JR (2016) A circuit motif in the zebrafish hindbrain for a two alternative behavioral choice to turn left or right. Elife 9;5.
Chen S, Chiu CN, McArthur KL, Fetcho JR, Prober DA. (2016) TRP channel mediated neuronal activation and ablation in freely behaving zebrafish. Nat Methods. 2016 Feb;13(2):147-50
Chow DM, Zuchowski KA, Fetcho JR (2017) In vivo measurement of glycine receptor turnover and synaptic size reveals differences between functional classes of motoneurons in zebrafish. Curr Biol 27(8); 1173-1183.
McArthur KL, Fetcho JR (2017) Key features of structural and functional organization of zebrafish facial motor neurons are resilient to disruption of neuronal migration. Curr Biol 27(12); 1746-1756.
Farrar MJ, Kolkman KE, and Fetcho JR (2018) Features of the structure, development, and activity of the zebrafish noradrenergic system explored in new CRISPR transgenic lines.J Comp Neurol. 526(15):2493-2508.
McArthur, K.L, Chow, D.M. and Fetcho J.R. (2020) Zebrafish as a Model for Revealing the Neuronal Basis of Behavior. In: The Zebrafish in Biomedical Research. Cartner et al., Eds. pp. 593-617.
Chow, D.M., Sinefeld, D., Kolkman, K.E., Ouzounov DG, Akbari N, Tatarsky R, Bass A, Xu C and Fetycho JR (2020) Deep three-photon imaging of the brain in intact adult zebrafish. Nat Methods 17: 605–608.
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Gans, C. and J.R. Fetcho (1982) The Sri Lankan genus Aspidura (Serpentes, Reptilia, Colubridae). Annals of Carnegie Museum. 51:271-316.