New twists in the evolution of retinal direction selectivity.

PLoS Biol

Center for Sensory Neuroscience and Computation, Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Sussex, United Kingdom.

Published: February 2024

In mammals, starburst amacrine cells are centrally involved in motion vision and a new study in PLOS Biology, by Yan and colleagues finds that zebrafish have them, too. They coexist with a second pair of starburst-like neurons, but neither appears to be strongly motion selective.

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