Understanding the retinal basis of vision across species

T Baden, T Euler, P Berens - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020‏ - nature.com
The vertebrate retina first evolved some 500 million years ago in ancestral marine
chordates. Since then, the eyes of different species have been tuned to best support their …

The retinal basis of vertebrate color vision

T Baden, D Osorio - Annual review of vision science, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
The jawless fish that were ancestral to all living vertebrates had four spectral cone types that
were probably served by chromatic-opponent retinal circuits. Subsequent evolution of …

True S-cones are concentrated in the ventral mouse retina and wired for color detection in the upper visual field

FM Nadal-Nicolás, VP Kunze, JM Ball, BT Peng… - Elife, 2020‏ - elifesciences.org
Color, an important visual cue for survival, is encoded by comparing signals from
photoreceptors with different spectral sensitivities. The mouse retina expresses a short …

Fovea-like photoreceptor specializations underlie single UV cone driven prey-capture behavior in zebrafish

T Yoshimatsu, C Schröder, NE Nevala, P Berens… - Neuron, 2020‏ - cell.com
In the eye, the function of same-type photoreceptors must be regionally adjusted to process
a highly asymmetrical natural visual world. Here, we show that UV cones in the larval …

Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour

T Baden - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024‏ - nature.com
Animal colour vision is based on comparing signals from different photoreceptors. It is
generally assumed that processing different spectral types of photoreceptor mainly serves …

[HTML][HTML] Deconstructing hunting behavior reveals a tightly coupled stimulus-response loop

DS Mearns, JC Donovan, AM Fernandes… - Current Biology, 2020‏ - cell.com
Animal behavior often forms sequences, built from simple stereotyped actions and shaped
by environmental cues. A comprehensive characterization of the interplay between an …

[HTML][HTML] Probabilistic models of larval zebrafish behavior reveal structure on many scales

RE Johnson, S Linderman, T Panier, CL Wee, E Song… - Current Biology, 2020‏ - cell.com
Nervous systems have evolved to combine environmental information with internal state to
select and generate adaptive behavioral sequences. To better understand these …

Natural environment statistics in the upper and lower visual field are reflected in mouse retinal specializations

Y Qiu, Z Zhao, D Klindt, M Kautzky, KP Szatko… - Current Biology, 2021‏ - cell.com
Pressures for survival make sensory circuits adapted to a species' natural habitat and its
behavioral challenges. Thus, to advance our understanding of the visual system, it is …

Seeing the rainbow: mechanisms underlying spectral sensitivity in teleost fishes

KL Carleton, D Escobar-Camacho… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - journals.biologists.com
Among vertebrates, teleost eye diversity exceeds that found in all other groups. Their
spectral sensitivities range from ultraviolet to red, and the number of visual pigments varies …

The zebrafish visual system: from circuits to behavior

JH Bollmann - Annual review of vision science, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Visual stimuli can evoke complex behavioral responses, but the underlying streams of
neural activity in mammalian brains are difficult to follow because of their size. Here, I review …