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Ultrastructural Characteristics and Synaptic Connectivity of Photoreceptors in the Simplex Retina of Little Skate (Leucoraja erinacea)

Oct 1, 2023 | eneuro.org | Laura Magaña-Hernandez |Erin Rose |Daniel Brown |Elizabeth Hamada

little skatephotoreceptorsretinarodsSB-3DEMsimplexSignificance StatementThe vast majority of vertebrate retinas are duplex and have mixed rod-cone populations of photoreceptors. The processing of visual information in a duplex retina is separated between rods and cones, which mediate function under scotopic and photopic lighting conditions, respectively. However, the cartilaginous fish little skate (Leucoraja erinacea) has a simplex retina, comprised solely of one photoreceptor cell type.

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