Welcome to the mouseTube documentation¶
This documentation covers an introduction, a description of the vocalizations page, and the backend API of the mouseTube project, which is based on Django.
What is mouseTube?¶
Rodents communicate using various sensory modalities:
olfaction (scent marking, glands), vision (postures), touch (contacts), and hearing (vocalizations).
These vocalizations are mostly emitted in the ultrasonic range, beyond human perception
(Anderson, 1954; Brudzynski, 2005, Brudsynski, 2021; Portfors, 2007; Schweinfurth, 2020).
Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are produced in various contexts:
- 🐭 Isolated pups during early life
- 🧑🤝🧑 Social interactions in juveniles and adults
- ♂️ Males in presence of females
- 😰 Situations of stress, reward anticipation, or exploration
These USVs serve as:
-
Markers of motivation and social communication
(Fischer & Hammerschmidt, 2010;
Schweinfurth, 2020) -
Indicators of stress or anxiety susceptibility
(Brudzynski, 2005)
They are routinely measured in neuropsychiatric research models
(Premoli et al., 2023).
To address this complexity and data requirement, we developed mouseTube:
a database for sharing, archiving, and analyzing rodent USVs, following the
FAIR principles
(Wilkinson et al., 2016):
- 🔍 Findable
- 🔓 Accessible
- 🔄 Interoperable
- ♻️ Reusable
MouseTube Publications¶
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Torquet N., de Chaumont F., Faure P., Bourgeron T., Ey E.
mouseTube – a database to collaboratively unravel mouse ultrasonic communication
F1000Research 2016, 5:2332
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9439.1 -
Ferhat A. T., Torquet N., Le Sourd A. M., de Chaumont F., Olivo-Marin J. C., Faure P., Bourgeron T., Ey E.
Recording Mouse Ultrasonic Vocalizations to Evaluate Social Communication
J. Vis. Exp. (112), e53871
https://dx.doi.org/10.3791/53871
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