Abstract:
:The distributions of rod and cone photoreceptors have been determined in the retina of the California ground squirrel, Spermophilus beecheyi. Retinas were fixed by perfusion and the rods and cones were detected with indirect immunofluorescence using opsin antibodies. Local densities were determined at 2-mm intervals across the entire retina, from which total numbers of each receptor type were estimated and isodensity distributions were constructed. The ground squirrel retina contains 7.5 million cones and 1.27 million rods. The peak density for the cones (49,550/mm2) is found in a horizontal strip of central retina 2 mm ventral to the elongated optic nerve head, falling gradually to half this value in the dorsal and ventral retinal periphery. Of the cones, there are 14 M cones for every S cone. S cone density is relatively flat across most of the retina, reaching a peak (4500/mm2) at the temporal end of the visual streak. There is one exception to this, however: S cone density climbs dramatically at the extreme dorso-nasal retinal margin (20,000/mm2), where the local ratio of S to M cones equals 1. Rod density is lowest in the visual streak, where the rods comprise less than 5% of the local photoreceptor population, increasing conspicuously in the ventral retina, where the rods achieve 30% of the local photoreceptor population (13,000/mm2). The functional importance of the change in S to M cone ratio at the dorsal circumference of the retina is compromised by the extremely limited portion of the visual field subserved by this retinal region. The significance for vision, if any, remains to be determined. By contrast, the change in rod/cone ratio between the dorsal and ventral halves of the retina indicates a conspicuous asymmetry in the ground squirrel's visual system, suggesting a specialization for maximizing visual sensitivity under dim levels of illumination in the superior visual field.
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Vis Neuroscijournal_title
Visual neuroscienceauthors
Kryger Z,Galli-Resta L,Jacobs GH,Reese BEdoi
10.1017/s0952523898154081subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-07-01 00:00:00pages
685-91issue
4eissn
0952-5238issn
1469-8714pii
S0952523898154081journal_volume
15pub_type
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