Retinal circuits extract visual features such as color, contrast, and motion. Direction-selective (DS) circuits provide a well-studied model for under…

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Circadian photoentrainment depends on intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which convey environmental light information to th…

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In the early stages of retinal development, a form of correlated activity known as retinal waves causes periodic depolarizations of immature retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Retinal waves are crucial fo...

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Evenly spaced “mosaics” of retinal neurons were discovered a century ago, but how mosaics form remains unknown. Here, Kozlowski et al. show that developing mouse starburst amacrine cells use MEGF10, a...

In the retina, visual information is segregated into ON (light increment) and OFF (light decrement) streams. Here, the authors identify a sign-inverting amacrine cell with an inhibitory ON center – ...

In many parts of the nervous system, neuronal somata display orderly spatial arrangements. In the retina, neurons of numerous individual subtypes form regular arrays called mosaics: they are less like...