NERVE-FIBER TOPOGRAPHY IN THE RETINAL PROJECTION TO THE TECTUM

被引:196
作者
SCHOLES, JH
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[1] MRC Cell Biophysics Unit, University of London, King's College, London WC2
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D O I
10.1038/278620a0
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The orderly layout of visual fibres in the optic nerves of cichlid fishes suggests that they are guided most of the way to the brain by contact with their neighbours. Before they reach the visual map in the tectum, however, their arrangement in the cross-section of the nerve is reorganised in a way which requires longer-range guidance. © 1979 Nature Publishing Group.
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