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Academic Peer Reviewed Research Paper
Title: Terminal Nerve GnRH3 Neurons Mediate Slow Avoidance of Carbon Dioxide in Larval Zebrafish
Source: Koide T, Yabuki Y, Yoshihara Y. Terminal nerve GnRH3 neurons mediate slow avoidance of carbon dioxide in larval zebrafish. Cell Reports, 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.01.019
Link: http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdf/S2211-1247(18)30036-6.pdf
The following paper is an Academic Peer Reviewed Research Paper for the following reasons:
a) The paper is written by experts in the field. Koide, Yabuki, and Yoshihara are all associated with the Laboratory for Neurobiology of Synapse in Japan. It was published in the journal “Cell Reports” which publishes high quality peer-reviewed material.
b) The paper contains a bibliography citing additional sources used as information. These sources are cited in text throughout the article. (Ex. “This fast escape response is mediated by reticulospinal neurons, including the large, morphologically conspicuous Mauthner cells” (Gahtan et al., 2002; Liu and Fetcho, 1999; O’Malley et al., 1996).)
c) Acknowledgements thank two editors for their critical reading of the manuscript indicating that the paper had gone through the peer review process. This is further supported by the journal the article is posted in.
d) The paper is formatted as a research paper as it contains an introduction, results and discussion. The experimental methods were included within the results section. We can see that there are multiple intervention levels further leading us to believe that the paper is experimental in nature. *(See below)
(To examine what chemosensory signals affect behaviors of larval zebrafish, we applied various chemicals to the head of fish at 5 days post-fertilization).
