Topographic arrangement of S-cone photoreceptors in the retina of the diurnal Nile grass rat (Arvicanthis niloticus)

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5426-5434

  Gaillard, Frédéric ^a   Kuny, Sharee ^b   Sauvé, Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA CONE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; RATS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; ROD OPSINS; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 77957902969     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3896     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Lyubarsky AL, Lem J, Chen J, Falsini B, Iannaccone A, Pugh EN Jr. Functionally rodless mice: transgenic models for the investigation of cone function in retinal disease and therapy. Vision Res. 2002; 42:401-415.
2. -mice coexpress functional S- and M-cone opsins having distinct inactivation mechanisms. J Gen Physiol. 2007;125:287-304.
3. Bobu C, Craft CM, Masson-Pevet M, Hicks D. Photoreceptor organization and rhythmic phagocytosis in the Nile rat Arvicanthis ansorgei: a novel diurnal rodent model to study cone pathophysiology. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2006;47:3109-3118.
4. Bobu C, Lahmam M, Vuillez P, Ouarour A, Hicks D. Photoreceptor organisation and phenotypic characterization in retinas of two diurnal rodent species: potential use as experimental animal models for human vision research. Vision Res. 2008;48:424-432.
5. Gaillard F, Bonfield S, Gilmour GS, et al. Retinal anatomy and visual performance in a diurnal cone-rich laboratory rodent, the Nile grass rat (Arvicanthis niloticus). J Comp Neurol. 2008;510:525-538.
6. Gilmour G, Gaillard F, Watson J, et al. The electroretinogram (ERG) of a diurnal cone-rich laboratory rodent, the Nile grass rat (Arvicanthis niloticus). Vision Res. 2008;48:2723-2731.
7. Wang Y, Macke JP, Merbs SL, et al. A locus control region adjacent to the human red and green visual pigment genes. Neuron. 1992; 9:429-440.
8. Li W, DeVries SH. Separate blue and green cone networks in the mammalian retina. Nat Neurosci. 2004;7:751-756.
9. Roberts MR, Hendrickson A, McGuire CR, Reh TA. Retinoid X receptor is necessary to establish the S-opsin gradient in cone photoreceptors of the developing mouse retina. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2005;46:2897-2904.
10. Haverkamp S, Wässle H, Duebel J et al. The primordial, blue-cone color system of the mouse retina. J Neurosci. 2005;25:5438-5445.
11. Peichl L, Chavez AE, Ocampo A, Mena W, Bozinovic F, Palacios AG. Eye and vision in the subterranean rodent cururo (Spalacopus cyanus, Octodontidae). J Comp Neurol. 2005;486:197-208.
12. Williams GA, Calderone JB, Jacobs GH. Photoreceptors and photopigments in a subterranean rodent, the pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae). J Comp Physiol A. 2005;191:125-134.
13. Steiner M, Peichl L, Ahnelt PK. Cone photoreceptors and potential UV vision in a subterranean insectivore, the European mole. J Vision. 2008;8:1-12.
14. Schiviz AN, Ruf T, Kuebber-Heiss A, Schubert C, Ahnelt PK. Retinal cone topography of artiodactyl mammals: influence of body height and habitat. J Comp Neurol. 2008;507:1336-1350.
15. Wässle H, Riemann HJ. The mosaic of nerve cells in the mammalian retina. Proc R Soc London Ser B. 1978;200:441-461.
16. Galli-Resta L, Novelli E, Kryger Z, Jacobs GH, Reese BE. Modelling the mosaic organization of rod and cone photoreceptors with a minimal-spacing rule. Eur J Neurosci. 1999;11:1461-1469.
17. Tatapudy S, Bruening S, Gleason G, Toth M. Validation and use of a computer-assisted counting procedure to quantify BrdU-labeled proliferating cells in the early postnatal mouse hippocampus. J Neurosci Methods. 2008;172:173-177.
18. Sandmann D, Boycott BB, Peichl L. Blue-cone horizontal cells in the retinae of horses and other equidae. J Neurosci. 1996;16:3381-3396.
19. Martin PR, Grünert U. Analysis of the short wavelength-sensitive ("blue") cone mosaic in the primate retina: comparison of New World and Old World monkeys. J Comp Neurol. 1999;406:1-14.
20. Ahnelt PK, Fernandez E, Martinez O, Bolea JA, Kübber-Heiss A. Irregular S-cone mosaics in felid retinas: spatial interaction with axonless horizontal cells, revealed by cross correlation. J Opt Soc Am A. 2000;17:580-588.
21. Cuenca N, Pinilla I, Sauve Y, Lund R. Early changes in synaptic connectivity following progressive photoreceptor degeneration in RCS rats. Eur J Neurosci. 2005;22:1057-1072.
22. Yokoyama S. Molecular evolution of vertebrate visual pigments. Prog Retin Eye Res. 2000;19:385-419.
23. Shi Y, Radlwimmer FB, Yokoyama S. Genetics and evolution of ultraviolet vision in vertebrates. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2001;98: 11731-11736.
24. Cowing JA, Poopalasundaram S, Wilkie SE, Robinson PR, Bowmaker JK, Hunt DM. The molecular mechanism for the spectral shifts between vertebrate ultraviolet- and violet-sensitive cone visual pigments. Biochem J. 2002;367:129-135.
25. Szél A, Röhlich P, Caffé AR, van Veen T. Distribution of cone photoreceptors in the mammalian retina. Microsc Res Tech. 1996; 35:445-462.
26. Peichl L. Diversity of mammalian photoreceptor properties: adaptations to habitat and lifestyle? Anat Rec. 2005;287:1001-1012.
27. Szel A, Rohlich P. Two cone types of rat retina detected by anti-visual pigment antibodies. Exp Eye Res. 1992;55:47-52.
28. Calderone JB, Jacobs GH. Cone receptor variations and their functional consequences in two species of hamster. Vis Neurosci. 1999;16:53-63.
29. Lukàts A, Dkhissi-Benyahya O, Szepessy Z, et al. Visual pigment coexpression in all cones of two rodents, the Siberian Hamster and the Pouched Mouse. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2002;43:2468-2473.
30. Williams GA, Jacobs GH. Absence of functional short-wavelength sensitive cone pigments in hamsters (Mesocricetus). J Comp Physiol A. 2008;194:429-439.
31. Csorba G, Caffe AR, Szél G, Rohlich P, van Veen T. Different patterns of retinal cone topography in two genera of rodents, Mus and Apodemus. Cell Tissue Res. 1994;276:143-150.
32. Jeon CJ, Strettoi E, Masland RH. The major cell populations of the mouse retina. J Neurosci. 1998;18:8936-8946.
33. Wikler KC, Stull DL, Reese BE, Johnson PT, Bogenmann E. Localization of protein kinase C to UV-sensitive photoreceptors in the mouse retina. Vis Neurosci. 1998;15:87-95.
34. Williams GA, Jacobs GH. Cone-based vision in the aging mouse. Vision Res. 2007;47:2037-2046.
35. Jacobs GH, Fenwick JA, Williams GA. Cone-based vision of rats for ultraviolet and visible lights. J Exp Biol. 2001;204:2439-2446.
36. Peichl L, Moutairou K. Absence of short-wavelength sensitive cones in the retinae of seals (Carnivora) and African giant rats (Rodentia). Eur J Neurosci. 1998;10:2586-2594.
37. Hut RA, Scheper A, Daan S. Can the circadian system of a diurnal and a nocturnal rodent entrain to ultraviolet light? J Comp Physiol. 2000;186:707-715.
38. Jacobs GH, Calderone JB, Fenwick JA, Krogh K, Williams GA. Visual adaptations in a diurnal rodent, Octodon degus. J Comp Physiol A. 2003;189:347-361.
39. Peichl L, Gonzalez-Soriano J. Morphological types of horizontal cell in rodent retinae: a comparison of rat, mouse, gerbil and guinea pig. Vis Neurosci. 1994;11:501-517.
40. Rocha FA, Ahnelt PK, Peichl L, Saito CA, Silvera LCL, de Lima SMA. The topography of cone photoreceptors in the retina of a diurnal rodent, the agouti (Dasyprocta aguti). Vis Neurosci. 2009;26(2): 167-175.
41. Long KO, Fisher SK. The distributions of photoreceptors and ganglion cells in the California ground squirrel, Spermophilus beecheyi. J Comp Neurol. 1983;221:329-340.
42. Kryger Z, Galli-Resta L, Jacobs GH, Reese BE. The topography of rod and cone photoreceptors in the retina of the ground squirrel. Vis Neurosci. 1998;15:685-691.
43. Ahnelt KP, Kolb H. The mammalian photoreceptor mosaic-adaptive design. Prog Retin Eye Res. 2000;19:711-777.
44. Carvalho LS, Cowing JA, Wilkie SE, Bowmaker JK, Hunt DM. Shortwave visual sensitivity in tree and flying squirrels reflects changes in lifestyle. Current Biol. 2006;16:R81-R83.
45. Williams RW, Strom RC, Zhou G, Yan Z. Genetic dissection of retinal development. Sem Cell Dev Biol. 1998;9:249-255.
46. Donatien P, Jeffery G. Correlation between rod photoreceptor numbers and levels of ocular pigmentation. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2002;43:1198-1203.
47. Raven MA, Stagg SB, Reese BE. Regularity and packing of the horizontal cell mosaic in different strains of mice. Vis Neurosci. 2005;22:461-468.
48. Calderone JB, Jacobs GH. Spectral properties and retinal distribution of ferret cones. Vis Neurosci. 2003;20:11-17.
49. Reese BE. Mosaic architecture of the mouse retina. In: Chalupa LM, Williams RW, eds. Eye, Retina and Visual System of the Mouse. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2008;147-155.
50. Baraas RC, Carroll J, Gunther KL, et al. Adaptive optics retinal imaging reveals S-cone dystrophy in tritan color-vision deficiency. J Opt Soc Am A. 2007;24:1438-1447.
51. Cook JE, Chalupa LM. Retinal mosaics: new insights into an old concept. Trends Neurosci. 2000;23:26-34.
52. Eglen SJ, Raven MA, Tamrazian E, Reese BE. Dopaminergic amacrine cells in the inner nuclear layer and ganglion cell layer comprise a single functional retinal mosaic. J Comp Neurol. 2003;466: 343-355.
53. Kim TJ, Jeon YK, Lee JY, Lee ES, Jeon CJ. The photoreceptor populations in the retina of the greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum. Mol Cell. 2008;26:373-379.
54. Hunt DM, Wilkie SE, Bowmaker JK, Poopalasundaram S. Vision in the ultraviolet. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2001;58:1583-1598.
55. Jacobs GH, Pulliam KA. Vision in the prairie dog: spectral sensitivity and color vision. J Comp Physiol Psychol. 1973;84:240-245.
56. Parry JW, Poopalasundaram S, Bowmaker JK, Hunt DM. A novel amino acid substitution is responsible for spectral tuning in a rodent violet-sensitive visual pigment. Biochem. 2004;43:8014-8020.
57. Govardovskii VI, Röhlich P, Szél A, Khokhlova TV. Cones in the retina of the Mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus: An immunocytochemical and electrophysiological study. Vision Res. 1992; 32:10-28.
58. Jacobs GH, Deegan JF IInd. Sensitivity to ultraviolet light in the gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus): characteristics and mechanisms. Vision Res. 1994;34:1433-1441.
59. Chavez AE, Bozinovic F, Peichl L, Palacios AG. Retinal spectral sensitivity, fur coloration, and urine reflectance in the genus Octodon (Rodentia): implications for visual ecology. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2003;44:2290-2296.
60. Blanchong JA, Smale L. Temporal patterns of activity of the unstriped Nile rat, Arvicanthis niloticus. J Mammal. 2000;81:595-599