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- Editors:
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Barbara L. Finlay
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Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
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Dale R. Sengelaub
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Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Cellular Aspects of Retinal Development
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- Edward H. Polley, Roger P. Zimmerman, Richard L. Fortney
Pages 3-29
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- Maree J. Webster, Ursula C. Drager, Jerry Silver
Pages 69-86
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- Audie G. Leventhal, Jeffrey D. Schall
Pages 173-195
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Phylogenetic, Evolutionary, and Functional Aspects of Retinal Development
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Front Matter
Pages 197-198
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- Lyn D. Beazley, Sarah A. Dunlop, Alison M. Harman, Lee-Ann Coleman
Pages 199-226
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- Kenneth C. Wikler, Barbara L. Finlay
Pages 227-246
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- Howard C. Howland, Frank Schaeffel
Pages 267-282
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Back Matter
Pages 283-287
About this book
The vertebrate retina has a form that is closely and clearly linked to its func tion. Though its fundamental cellular architecture is conserved across verte brates, the retinas of individual species show variations that are also of clear and direct functional utility. Its accessibility, readily identifiable neuronal types, and specialized neuronal connectivity and morphology have made it a model system for researchers interested in the general questions of the genet ic, molecular, and developmental control of cell type and shape. Thus, the questions asked of the retina span virtually every domain of neuroscientific inquiry-molecular, genetic, developmental, behavioral, and evolutionary. Nowhere have the interactions of these levels of analysis been more apparent and borne more fruit than in the last several years of study of the develop ment of the vertebrate retina. Fields of investigation have a natural evolution, rdoving through periods of initial excitement, of framing of questions and controversy, to periods of synthesis and restatement of questions. The study of the development of the vertebrate retina appeared to us to have reached such a point of synthesis. Descriptive questions of how neurons are generated and deployed, and ques tions of mechanism about the factors that control the retinal neuron's type and distribution and the conformation of its processes have been posed, and in good part answered. Moreover, the integration of cellular accounts of development with genetic, molecular, and whole-eye and behavioral accounts has begun.
Editors and Affiliations
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Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Barbara L. Finlay
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Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Dale R. Sengelaub
