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Amphioxus, motion detection, and the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate retinotectal map

The axonal projection from the retina to the optic tectum maps visual information isomorphically from one to the other and serves as a model for the development of sensory maps more generally in the vertebrate brain. How or why this connection evolved is not known, nor why the midbrain is so importa...

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Autor principal: Lacalli, Thurston
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5817868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29479412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13227-018-0093-2