Eye size found to account for some diversity among mammalian direction detection cells
Thursday, June 23, 2016 - 07:51
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania, has found that eye size might have more to do with neurological differences in the retinas of mammals than has been previously thought. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes their studies of selective retinal neuronal circuits called starburst amacrine cells (SACs), in mice, compare them to those in rabbits and then offer some reasons for the differences they found.