Working on Open Field Test (OFT) animal tracking, i recently noticed that there is actually -no- some )* "ground truth" published about the "normal" behavior of laboratory mice and rats in OFT. Being aware of the big influence of the specific environment in which OFT is done, nonetheless it should be possible to detect some kind of common characteristics in the animals behavior. And this may help researchers in future to evaluate their testing environment and improve their experimental settings to get more reliable results.
If you like to share video recordings of naive mice/rats for this purpose, please contact me via researchgate
)* UPDATE: there is some data at Rat Genome Database - rgd.mcw.edu . see below for the actual access information.
)* UPDATE: there is data on mice too: see Marin Jukic's answer below for the Mouse Phenome Database phoneme.jax.org
I don't have such video recording as I did OFT experiments long back. We observed rats behaviour by our naked eyes. It is true that rats behaviour in OFT is environment specific, however, there are some behaviours that elicited by every rat in OFT on the very first day of testing. Thsee behaviours are urination and defecation as Mark's of territory and heightened anxiety; standing on hind limbs repeatedly (rearings) and ambulation particularly in the periphery of open-field. These behaviours are sensitive to a number of treatments e. g., early life rearing conditions and nutrition, drugs, strain, and other manipulations.
Same here. we did not have any video cameras back them. However I think it would be a great idea sharing such material. Congatulations Andreas on the initiative.
All I can do is sharing our data, please check our male and female control Wistar rat results from our paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/15459258_Neonatally_administered_naltrexone_affects_several_behavioral_responses_in_adult_rats_of_both_genders?ev=prf_pub
Article Neonatally administered naltrexone affects several behaviora...
Dear Amdreas,
Ik have two suggestions for you.
- Contact Ruud Tegelenbosch ([email protected]), the product manager of EthoVision, our video tracking system. He may have OFT video files that he can share with you.
- Post your question on the LinkedIn group "Measuring Behavior". Then you reach > 2.500 scientists, many of whom are users of video tracking systems and must possess video files of the type you are looking for.
Kind regards,
Lucas Noldus
I recently have found some information on naive rats of various strains at rgd.mcw.edu database:
http://rgd.mcw.edu/phenotypes/dataTable/getPivotTable?terms=MMO%3A258%2CMMO%3A259%2CMMO%3A260%2CMMO%3A264%2CMMO%3A265%2CMMO%3A266%2CMMO%3A298%2CMMO%3A299
or start at:
http://rgd.mcw.edu/phenotypes/
choose "measurement methods"
http://phenome.jax.org/db/q?rtn=meas/catlister&req=Cbehaviorqqqanxiety
http://phenome.jax.org/db/q?rtn=meas/catlister&req=Cbehaviorqqqlocomotor%20activity
Jax has an integrated database for a lot of inbred strains of mice; under these two links you can find lots of behavioral measurements in the open field from various labs under different conditions.
I hope that this helps
@Marin Jukic
Great answer - i was scrolling over the JAX MPD databases but i haven't found this in hours. Maybe got distracted by the overwhelming number of strains and shear mass of data about them :)
Thanks a lot.
Dear Andreas,
Another database (with mouse strains) you can consider is the one created by the Dutch NeuroBsik consortium. We have been working on this database since 2003 with ten academic groups. The URL I have readily available is http://www.neurobsik.nl/, there may be a more recent one. You can also contact Maarten Loos ([email protected]) to get access.
Kind regards,
Lucas Noldus
I am very interested in getting footage of animal behaviour studies to test a tracking software we are developing. (You can check it in https://toxtrac.sourceforge.io)
I am specially interested in footage involving multiple animals in the same arena, since a part of our sofware is aimed at preserving the identity of each animal when they cross with other indivuduals.
I would be very grateful if you can share some of that footage. Thank you very much in advance.
PD: This is a onedrive link with video footage we are using to test this software, hope it also may be useful
https://sourceforge.net/projects/toxtrac/
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AqgAEichDIhJjKkq8aXeoyDV2iOisg
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