title: Design principles and developmental mechanisms underlying retinal mosaics.
abstract: Most structures within the central nervous system (CNS) are composed of different types of neuron that vary in both number and morphology, but relatively little is known about the interplay between these two features, i.e. about the population dynamics of a given cell type. How such arrays of neurons are distributed within a structure, and how they differentiate their dendrites relative to each other, are issues that have recently drawn attention in the invertebrate nervous system, where the genetic and molecular underpinnings of these organizing principles are being revealed in exquisite detail. The retina is one of the few locations where these principles have been extensively studied in the vertebrate CNS, indeed, where the design principles of 'mosaic regularity' and 'uniformity of coverage' were first explicitly defined, quantified, and related to each other. Recent studies have revealed a number of genes that influence the formation of these histotypical features in the retina, including homologues of those invertebrate genes, although close inspection reveals that they do not always mediate comparable developmental processes nor elucidate fundamental design principles. The present review considers just how pervasive these features of 'mosaic regularity' and 'uniform dendritic coverage' are within the mammalian retina, discussing the means by which such features can be assessed in the mature and developing nervous system and examining the limitations associated with those assessments. We then address the extent to which these two design principles co-exist within different populations of neurons, and how they are achieved during development. Finally, we consider the neural phenotypes obtained in mutant nervous systems, to address whether a prospective gene of interest underlies those very design principles.
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5060, U.S.A.|Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660, U.S.A.
authors.forename: Benjamin E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Reese
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5060, U.S.A.|Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9625, U.S.A.
authors.forename: Patrick W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Keeley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D009154:Mutation; D012160:Retina / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology
keywords: Voronoi domain; autocorrelation; coverage; dendritic field; effective radius; nearest neighbour; packing factor; patterning; regularity; tiling
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