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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2013

A systems-based dissection of retinal inputs to the zebrafish tectum reveals different rules for different functional classes during development.

Andrew S Lowe, Nikolas Nikolaou, Paul R Hunter, Ian D Thompson, Martin P Meyer

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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  9. Visual Experience Facilitates BDNF-Dependent Adaptive Recruitment of New Neurons in the Postembryonic Optic Tectum.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  10. Orientation-Selective Retinal Circuits in Vertebrates.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2018
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  17. Neurons in the most superficial lamina of the mouse superior colliculus are highly selective for stimulus direction.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015
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5 authors.

Andrew S LoweMRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, Guy's Hospital Campus, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom.
Nikolas Nikolaou
Paul R Hunter
Ian D Thompson
Martin P Meyer

Funding

Medical Research Council G0600107Medical Research Council G0801242Medical Research Council G0901899Medical Research Council G1100162Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 083205
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have examined the form, diversity, and organization of three functional classes of retinal inputs to the zebrafish optic tectum during development. Our systems-based approach was to analyze data from populations of retinal ganglion cells labeled with a presynaptic targeted calcium indicator, synaptophysin GCaMP3 (SyGCaMP3). Collectively, our findings provide an insight as to the degree of visual encoding during retino-tectal development and how it dynamically evolves from a nascent and noisy presynaptic neural-scape to an increasingly complex and refined representation. We report five key features: (1) direction-selective inputs are developmentally invariant; (2) orientation-selective inputs exhibit highly dynamic properties over the same period, with changes in their functional characteristics and spatial organization; (3) inputs defined as anisotropic are an early dominant functional class, with heterogeneous response profiles, which progressively diminish in incidence and spatial extent; (4) dark rearing selectively affects the orientation-selective responses: both functional characteristics and relative spatial distributions; and (5) orientation-selective inputs exhibit four subtypes, two more than previously identified in any species. Our approach was to label RGC axon terminals with an indicator of activity and quantitatively characterize coherent response properties to different visual stimuli. Its application in the zebrafish, given its small size and the accessibility of the tectum, has enabled a quick yet robust assessment of multiple functional populations of responses.

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Visual PerceptionAnimalsOrientationRetinal Ganglion CellsSuperior ColliculiZebrafish

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PMID23986232
PMCPMC3756746

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