Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

An interhemispheric neural circuit allowing binocular integration in the optic tectum

  • Christoph Gebhardt,
  • Thomas O. Auer,
  • Pedro M. Henriques,
  • Gokul Rajan,
  • Karine Duroure,
  • Isaac H. Bianco,
  • Filippo Del Bene

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13484-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Zebrafish larvae can binocularly detect prey objects in order to strike but lack ipsilateral retinotectal fibers for binocular superposition of visual information. Here the authors describe commissural intertectal neurons and show that they are required for the initiation of capture strikes.