TY - JOUR
T1 - Retinal parallel pathways: seeing with our inner fish
AU - Joselevitch, Christina
AU - Kamermans, Maarten
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The general organization of the vertebrate retina is highly conserved, in spite of structural variations that occur in different animal classes. The retinas of cyprinid fish, for example, differ in many aspects from those of primates. However, these differences are in the same order of magnitude as those found among mammalian species. Therefore, it is important to consider whether these changes are minor variations on the same theme or whether they lead to fundamentally different functions. In this light, we compare the retinal organization of teleost fish and mammals as regards parallel processing and discuss their many similarities
AB - The general organization of the vertebrate retina is highly conserved, in spite of structural variations that occur in different animal classes. The retinas of cyprinid fish, for example, differ in many aspects from those of primates. However, these differences are in the same order of magnitude as those found among mammalian species. Therefore, it is important to consider whether these changes are minor variations on the same theme or whether they lead to fundamentally different functions. In this light, we compare the retinal organization of teleost fish and mammals as regards parallel processing and discuss their many similarities
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.019
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.019
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18722397
SN - 0042-6989
VL - 49
SP - 943
EP - 959
JO - Vision research
JF - Vision research
IS - 9
ER -