Ebook: Development of the Vertebrate Retina
- Tags: Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Neurosciences
- Series: Perspectives in Vision Research
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The vertebrate retina has a form that is closely and clearly linked to its func tion. Though its fundamental cellular architecture is conserved across verte brates, the retinas of individual species show variations that are also of clear and direct functional utility. Its accessibility, readily identifiable neuronal types, and specialized neuronal connectivity and morphology have made it a model system for researchers interested in the general questions of the genet ic, molecular, and developmental control of cell type and shape. Thus, the questions asked of the retina span virtually every domain of neuroscientific inquiry-molecular, genetic, developmental, behavioral, and evolutionary. Nowhere have the interactions of these levels of analysis been more apparent and borne more fruit than in the last several years of study of the develop ment of the vertebrate retina. Fields of investigation have a natural evolution, rdoving through periods of initial excitement, of framing of questions and controversy, to periods of synthesis and restatement of questions. The study of the development of the vertebrate retina appeared to us to have reached such a point of synthesis. Descriptive questions of how neurons are generated and deployed, and ques tions of mechanism about the factors that control the retinal neuron's type and distribution and the conformation of its processes have been posed, and in good part answered. Moreover, the integration of cellular accounts of development with genetic, molecular, and whole-eye and behavioral accounts has begun.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Neurogenesis and Maturation of Cell Morphology in the Development of the Mammalian Retina....Pages 3-29
Retinal Rod Neurogenesis....Pages 31-42
The Regulation of Neuronal Production during Retinal Neurogenesis....Pages 43-67
Development of the Visual System in Hypopigmented Mutants....Pages 69-86
Topographic Organization of the Visual Pathways....Pages 87-111
Routing of Axons at the Optic Chiasm....Pages 113-148
Dendritic Interactions between Cell Populations in the Developing Retina....Pages 149-172
Extrinsic Determinants of Retinal Ganglion Cell Development in Cats and Monkeys....Pages 173-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-198
Development of Cell Density Gradients in the Retinal Ganglion Cell Layer of Amphibians and Marsupials....Pages 199-226
Developmental Heterochrony and the Evolution of Species Differences in Retinal Specializations....Pages 227-246
Fish Vision....Pages 247-265
Development of Accommodation and Refractive State in the Eyes of Humans and Chickens....Pages 267-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-287
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Neurogenesis and Maturation of Cell Morphology in the Development of the Mammalian Retina....Pages 3-29
Retinal Rod Neurogenesis....Pages 31-42
The Regulation of Neuronal Production during Retinal Neurogenesis....Pages 43-67
Development of the Visual System in Hypopigmented Mutants....Pages 69-86
Topographic Organization of the Visual Pathways....Pages 87-111
Routing of Axons at the Optic Chiasm....Pages 113-148
Dendritic Interactions between Cell Populations in the Developing Retina....Pages 149-172
Extrinsic Determinants of Retinal Ganglion Cell Development in Cats and Monkeys....Pages 173-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-198
Development of Cell Density Gradients in the Retinal Ganglion Cell Layer of Amphibians and Marsupials....Pages 199-226
Developmental Heterochrony and the Evolution of Species Differences in Retinal Specializations....Pages 227-246
Fish Vision....Pages 247-265
Development of Accommodation and Refractive State in the Eyes of Humans and Chickens....Pages 267-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-287
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