Joselevitch Christina, Kamermans Maarten
Retinal Signal Processing, The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meibergdreef 47, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Vision Res. 2009 May;49(9):943-59. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.019. Epub 2008 Sep 11.
The general organization of the vertebrate retina is highly conserved, in spite of structural variations that occur in different animal classes. The retinas of cyprinid fish, for example, differ in many aspects from those of primates. However, these differences are in the same order of magnitude as those found among mammalian species. Therefore, it is important to consider whether these changes are minor variations on the same theme or whether they lead to fundamentally different functions. In this light, we compare the retinal organization of teleost fish and mammals as regards parallel processing and discuss their many similarities.
尽管不同动物类别中存在结构差异，但脊椎动物视网膜的总体组织结构高度保守。例如，鲤科鱼类的视网膜在许多方面与灵长类动物的视网膜不同。然而，这些差异与在哺乳动物物种之间发现的差异处于同一数量级。因此，重要的是要考虑这些变化是同一主题的微小变化，还是会导致根本不同的功能。鉴于此，我们比较硬骨鱼和哺乳动物在并行处理方面的视网膜组织，并讨论它们的许多相似之处。
