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Retina of different species

Each species have the retina adapted to light conditions dependent on whether the animal lives in diurnal or nocturnal habitats. The non-mammalian species with cone dominance lack a visual cortex. Their «complex» retinas perform much more visual processing than simple mammalian retinas. Mammalian species with a few exceptions have «simple» retinas and leave complex information processing to the visual cortex.

Salamander retinaAn antique slide from 1953.
Cones and cone-bipolar cellsfrom mouse
70Retina of different species - Monkey
XGCAP1Rod3 XENOPUSRetina of different species - Xenopus
Turtle TCBGACRRetina of different species - Turtle
Monkey calbpa13 poster2Retina of different species - Monkey
Salamander SALCBSRetina of different species - Salamander
40MPU-CR-GLY-SYN_Snapshot_07bisRetina of different species - Monkey
CatCCBPVserie5proyRetina of different species - Cat
Mouse 142MS C57BL6 RecovPKC_6 fotos 40×146Retina of different species - Mouse
species1Retina of different species - Chicken
CarpCB CR 1Retina of different species - Carp
Rata1_R6REcTranContrcent5fRetina of different species - Rat
Monkey 54MPUSyn-Recover-PKCmejorada 300Retina of different species - Monkey
MOUSERetina of different species - Mouse
Monkey retina GABA, Gly and alpha synuclein
Human retinaImmunostaining with GNB3, CRALBP and Cit-C antibodies
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