The social behaviour in zebrafish (Danio rerio) – the metabolic, neuropsychiatric and ecotoxicological relevance
The social behaviour in zebrafish (Danio rerio) – the metabolic, neuropsychiatric and ecotoxicological relevance

Summary/Abstract: Zebrafish (Danio rerio), a teleost cyprinid, is a species that became an ideal model for aquaticecotoxicology due to large spectrum of methodologies developed in early 1980. Zebrafish as amodel organism has many advantages, such as: reduced costs (fish breeding is cheaper thanmice), small size, ex utero development of the embryo and individuals grow at a rapid rate(mature adults develop in about three months) and embryos are transparent. In addition,zebrafish has a high degree of homology to the human genome, which is why it is used as amodel organism for studying: genetics, metabolics, pharmacology, cancer, neuropsychiatricmanifestations, ecological toxicology etc. Thus, in this mini-review we are summarizing theaforementioned described aspects, by focusing on the social behavior and how this isinfluenced by their metabolic, neuropsychiatric and ecotoxicological relevance.

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