Characterizing the structure of mouse behavior using Motion Sequencing.

Autor: Lin S; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA., Gillis WF; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA., Weinreb C; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA., Zeine A; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA., Jones SC; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA., Robinson EM; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA., Markowitz J; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.; Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA., Datta SR; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. srdatta@hms.harvard.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature protocols [Nat Protoc] 2024 Nov; Vol. 19 (11), pp. 3242-3291. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 26.
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-024-01015-w
Abstrakt: Spontaneous mouse behavior is composed from repeatedly used modules of movement (e.g., rearing, running or grooming) that are flexibly placed into sequences whose content evolves over time. By identifying behavioral modules and the order in which they are expressed, researchers can gain insight into the effect of drugs, genes, context, sensory stimuli and neural activity on natural behavior. Here we present a protocol for performing Motion Sequencing (MoSeq), an ethologically inspired method that uses three-dimensional machine vision and unsupervised machine learning to decompose spontaneous mouse behavior into a series of elemental modules called 'syllables'. This protocol is based upon a MoSeq pipeline that includes modules for depth video acquisition, data preprocessing and modeling, as well as a standardized set of visualization tools. Users are provided with instructions and code for building a MoSeq imaging rig and acquiring three-dimensional video of spontaneous mouse behavior for submission to the modeling framework; the outputs of this protocol include syllable labels for each frame of the video data as well as summary plots describing how often each syllable was used and how syllables transitioned from one to the other. In addition, we provide instructions for analyzing and visualizing the outputs of keypoint-MoSeq, a recently developed variant of MoSeq that can identify behavioral motifs from keypoints identified from standard (rather than depth) video. This protocol and the accompanying pipeline significantly lower the bar for users without extensive computational ethology experience to adopt this unsupervised, data-driven approach to characterize mouse behavior.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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