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Target recognition and visual maps in the thalamus of achiasmatic dogs.
Nature - 17 Feb 1994
Williams R W, Hogan D, Garraghty P E
Abstract excerpt
Vision is dependent on ordered neuronal representations or maps of visual space. These maps depend on precise connections between retinal axons and their targets cells. In mammals, nerve fibres from right and left eyes produce congruent maps of contralateral visual space in adjacent layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). We have identified an autosomal recessive mutation in Belgian sheepdogs that...
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