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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
A hydrodynamic topographic map in the midbrain of goldfishCarassius auratus
Beteiligte:
Plachta, Dennis T. T.;
Hanke, Wolf;
Bleckmann, Horst
Erschienen:
The Company of Biologists, 2003
Erschienen in:Journal of Experimental Biology
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1242/jeb.00582
ISSN:
1477-9145;
0022-0949
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<jats:title>SUMMARY</jats:title><jats:p>Sensory systems often consist of several parallel pathways. Within each pathway, sensory information may be processed in topographically arranged maps or in maps derived by neuronal computation. Parallel pathways have so far not been described in the central lateral line system of teleost fish at levels higher than the medulla, and evidence for midbrain lateral line maps in fish is still weak. We found two classes of units with different response patterns in the central lateral line nucleus in the torus semicircularis of the goldfish Carassius auratus. Units of one class responded to a passing sphere and to the wake caused by that sphere with excitation. Units of the second class also responded to the moving sphere. However, these units did not respond to the wake behind the sphere. Hydrodynamic information received by class two units was topographically organized in the torus semicircularis of goldfish in that anterior body areas projected to rostral midbrain and posterior body areas to caudal midbrain. Units that responded only to the passing sphere were on average located more ventrally in the lateral TS than the units that responded exclusively to a vibrating sphere.</jats:p>