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Regularity and packing of the horizontal cell mosaic in different strains of mice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2005

MARY A. RAVEN ,
STEPHANIE B. STAGG  and
BENJAMIN E. REESE
MARY A. RAVEN
Affiliation:
Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
STEPHANIE B. STAGG
Affiliation:
Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
BENJAMIN E. REESE
Affiliation:
Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
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Abstract

The present study describes the relationships between mosaic regularity, intercellular spacing, and packing of horizontal cells across a two-fold variation in horizontal cell density in four strains of mice. We have tested the prediction that mosaic patterning is held constant across variation in density following our recent demonstration that intercellular spacing declines as density increases, by further examination of that dataset: Nearest-neighbor and Voronoi-domain analyses were conducted on multiple fields of horizontal cells from each strain, from which their respective regularity indices were calculated. Autocorrelation analysis was performed on each field, from which the density recovery profile was generated, and effective radius and packing factor were calculated. The regularity indexes showed negative correlations with density rather than being held constant, suggesting that the strong negative correlation between intercellular spacing and density exceeded that required to produce a simple scaling of the mosaic. This was confirmed by the negative correlation between packing factor and density. These results demonstrate that the variation in the patterning present in the population of horizontal cells across these strains is a consequence of epigenetic mechanisms controlling intercellular spacing as a function of density.

Keywords

Nearest neighborVoronoi domainAutocorrelationDensity recovery profileRetinaDevelopment
Type
Research Article
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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , July 2005 , pp. 461 - 468
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2005 Cambridge University Press

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