Species-dependent variation in the dendritic stratification of apparently homologous retinal ganglion cell mosaics in two neoteleost fishes

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2615-2631

  Cook, Jeremy E ^a   Podugolnikova, Tatiana A ^b   Kondrashev, Sergei L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Evolution; Fish; Neuronal type; Receptive field; Spatial order

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEOST;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; FISHES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033035512     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00327-7     Document Type: Article

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