What Can Headless Flatworms Teach Us About Vision? (8 of 9) (IMAGE)

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What Can Headless Flatworms Teach Us About Vision? (8 of 9)

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Schematic image of the planarian visual network. Planarians form the optic chiasm and visual axons project into the visual center for transmitting light information to the brain. The components of the planarian photoreceptor. The multicellular pigment cup produced by apposition of several pigment cells. Optic chiasm stained with a photoreceptor neuron marker. Scheme of planarian nervous system. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 28, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Shettigar at Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) in Bangalore, India, and colleagues was titled, 'Hierarchies in light sensing and dynamic interactions between ocular and extraocular sensory networks in a flatworm.'

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[Credit: Akash Gulyani Lab, inStem, Bangalore, India]

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