New twists in the evolution of retinal direction selectivity.

In mammals, starburst amacrine cells are centrally involved in motion vision and a new study in PLOS Biology, by Yan and colleagues finds that zebrafish have them, too. They coexist with a second pair of starburst-like neurons, but neither appears to be strongly motion selective.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Takeshi Yoshimatsu, Tom Baden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002538&type=printable

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