Figure 7.

Figure 7.

(A) Experimental setup for RGC axon ablations. Larvae are expressing mCherry in RGCs and nulear GCaMP6s panneuronally. The eye contralateral to the ablation site is visually stimulated and the ipsilateral tectal cells are functionally imaged before and after the ablations. As a control, the eye ipsilateral to the ablation site is stimulated and the contralateral tectal cells are imaged in the same fish. (B) Sideview of mCherry expression in RGCs at 6 dpf shows the most lateral axon bundle, which leaves AF7 for the SO layer (arrow). (C) Dorsal view of single image planes showing the axon fibers of interest in the contralateral (control, upper panel) and ipsilateral (ablated, lower panel) pretectum of the same fish. (D) Single functional image planes, projected over time, showing nuclear GCaMP6s expression in the ipsilateral tectum, before (6 dpf, left) and after (7 dpf, right) ablation. Pixels are color-coded by preference for 5° dot (magenta) or looming (cyan) stimuli. (E) Number of cells per image plane (out of two fish), which are responsive to a 5° dot stimulus, before and after ablations in the ipsilateral and the contralateral tectum. (F) Same as (E), showing the number of cells responsive to a looming stimulus. (G) Fraction of 5°-dot- and looming-responsive cells after ablations in the ipsilateral and contralateral tectum. Error bars are SEM. ***: p = 0.0006; n.s.: p = 0.46. N equals number of cells from two independent fish. Scale bars in (B): 30 µm, (C): 20 µm, and (D): 50 µm.