Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest a mechanism of cone mosaic formation.

The outer epithelial layer of zebrafish retinae contains a crystalline array of cone photoreceptors, called the cone mosaic. As this mosaic grows by mitotic addition of new photoreceptors at the rim of the hemispheric retina, topological defects, called "Y-Junctions", form to maintain appr...

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Main Authors: Hayden Nunley, Mikiko Nagashima, Kamirah Martin, Alcides Lorenzo Gonzalez, Sachihiro C Suzuki, Declan A Norton, Rachel O L Wong, Pamela A Raymond, David K Lubensky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008437