..., quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Bats Retinal ganglion cells Retinal topography Spatial resolving power...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Acanthogobius flavimanus Feeding strategies Mudskipper Periophthalmus modestus Retinal topography Vision Yellowfin goby The mudflats in estuaries provide rich environments...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Spatial resolving power Retinal topography Primates Strepsirhines Retinal ganglion cell Stereology...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Retinal topography Carnivores Herpestidae Retinal ganglion cells Cones Rods Stereology Spatial resolving power The family Herpestidae (cusimanses and mongooses) represents a monophyletic...

... cell Spatial resolving power Myctophid Retinal topography Stereology Deep sea Evolutionary history Teleost Retinal topographic analyses of the distribution of neurons within the ganglion cell layer are very useful in providing information on how animals perceive and process visual...

... Oil droplets Photoreceptors Retinal topography Visual fields The avian visual system has been proposed to vary depending on whether the main prey is passive (e.g. seeds, fruits) or active (e.g. insects, vertebrates). The rationale is that the detection and tracking of active prey would...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Visual acuity Sensory ecology Photoreceptors Ganglion cells Cone density Teleost Vertebrate eye Retinal topography...

... 25:549-561. 53. Litherland L, Collin SP, Fritsches KA (2009): Eye growth in sharks: ecological implications for changes in retinal topography and visual resolution. Vis Neurosci 26:397-409. 54. Lythgoe JN (1968): Visual pigments and visual range underwater. Vision Res 8:997-1012. 55...

.... Area gigantocellularis Evolutionary history Retinal topography Penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus Eudyptula minor Spatial resolving power Stereology Retinal ganglion cell Penguins (Sphenisciformes) are a group of oceanic flightless birds that exhibit unique morphological...

... retinal topography, visual field configuration, and scanning behavior. We found that geese have an oblique rather than a horizontal visual streak across the retina: from a dorsal-nasal to a ventral-temporal position. Geese showed narrow blind areas, which increased the range of their lateral vision...

... field. Retinal topography of O. maculatus and O. parvimaculatus is similar, with both possessing a dorsal horizontal streak facilitating an increased spatial resolving power of 3.51 cycles deg –1 and 3.91 cycles deg –1 , respectively, in the lower visual field. O. parvimaculatus also possesses an area...

..., the studied species showed variability in retinal topography that may be related to foraging techniques, eye size constraints, and size of the area centralis. 4 01 2009 1 12 2010 27 5 2010 © 2010 S. Karger AG, Basel 2010 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights...

... are correlated with the physical structure and symmetry of a species’ perceived visual world and its specific visual demands [Hughes, 1977; Collin and Pettigrew, 1988a, b; Collin, 1999; Bailes et al., 2006]. Area centralis Batoid Focal length Horizontal streak Retinal ganglion cell Retinal topography...

... centralis of other species, and only very weak evidence of a visual streak. There is thus very little regional variation in the structure of the echidna retina, less than in any mammal previously studied. Implications for the understanding of comparative retinal topography are discussed. 18 3 2008...

...; bNeuroscience Laboratories, Department of Physiology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia Key Words. Barn owl Electron microscopy Fiber diameter spectrum Retinal topography Retinal whole-mount Visual acuity Abstract. The visual capacity of the common barn owl (Tyto alba) was studied...

... that this latter concentration has evolved to monitor the animal's trunk. Features of the eye, including its size, orientation and fundal pigmentation, are also described. Elephant Retinal topography Ganglion cell layer 6 2 2008 © 1989 S. Karger AG, Basel 1989 Copyright / Drug Dosage...

... in previous physiological studies. Alpha cells, at least in nasal retina, decreased in some size. Retinal topography Visual cortex ablation Retinal ganglion cell W cell degeneration Brain Behav Evol 1990;35:253-267 © I990S. Karger AG. Basel 0006-8977/90/0355-0253 S 2.75/0 Evidence for Degeneration...

.... Nonetheless, even though both species exhibit different foraging strategies, they shared a similar topographic arrangement of neuronal density in the ganglion cell layer. This suggests that the retinal topography did not accompany changes in the foraging ecology throughout evolutionary history...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Mammals Hyena Crocuta crocuta Photoreceptors Ganglion cells Cones Spatial acuity Retinal topography Ganglion cells were distinguished from other cells in a Nissl stained...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Birds Ostrich Struthionidae Retinal topography Ganglion cell layer Visual acuity Retinal illumination...