PUBLICATION
A moving wave patterns the cone photoreceptor mosaic array in the zebrafish retina
- Authors
- Raymond, P.A., and Barthel, L.K.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-041130-7
- Date
- 2004
- Source
- The International journal of developmental biology 48(8-9): 935-945 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Barthel, Linda, Raymond, Pamela
- Keywords
- pattern formation, retinal development, cell fate, opsin gene, visual pigment
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Body Patterning
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Lineage
- Drosophila/embryology
- Embryonic Development
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization
- Models, Biological
- Neurons/metabolism
- Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate/physiology*
- Phylogeny
- Retina/embryology*
- Retina/metabolism
- Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells/embryology*
- Retinal Pigments
- Time Factors
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- PubMed
- 15558484 Full text @ Int. J. Dev. Biol.
Citation
Raymond, P.A., and Barthel, L.K. (2004) A moving wave patterns the cone photoreceptor mosaic array in the zebrafish retina. The International journal of developmental biology. 48(8-9):935-945.
Abstract
In this paper, we describe the embryonic origin and patterning of the planar mosaic array of cone photoreceptor spectral subtypes in the zebrafish retina. A discussion of possible molecular mechanisms that might generate the cone mosaic array considers but discards a model that accounts for formation of neuronal mosaics in the inner retina and discusses limitations of mathematical simulations that reproduce the zebrafish cone mosaic pattern. The formation and organization of photoreceptors in the ommatidia of the compound eye of Drosophila is compared with similar features in the developing zebrafish cone mosaic, and a model is proposed that invokes spatiotemporally coordinated cell-cell interactions among cone progenitors to determine the identity and positioning of cone spectral subtypes.
Errata / Notes
Special Issue - Eye Development
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping