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The electrical responses of the retinal receptors and the lamina in the visual system of the fly musca
Authors:John Scholes
Institution:1. Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen
Abstract:Slow electrical responses were recorded from receptors and from the lamina of the visual pathway of the fly Musca.
  1. Receptors 1 to 6 in the retinal ommatidia are identified by their response dichroic sensitivity planes. The half-width of their angular sensitivity distributions is estimated 2.5° in dark adaptation, and found not to vary with ambient illumination. The retinula cells are only excited by light that enters the eye through their overlying corneal facets.
  2. The responses of the lamina show no detectable dichroic sensitivity, though in favourable cases their angular sensitivity distributions may be as narrow as those of the receptors. It is shown that these responses are excited by light that enters the six facets of the corneal projection of the single lamina cartridge synapse. The retinula fibres of passage through the lamina, originating from ommatidial cells 7 and 8, evidently do not contribute excitation to the responses.
  3. It is shown that the separate responses contributed by the individual receptors of the projection are added linearly at the lamina response compartment over a wide range of light intensities.
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