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By Evelyne Sernagor, Stephen Eglen, Bill Harris, Rachel Wong

This complicated textual content takes a developmental method of the presentation of our present figuring out of ways vertebrates build a retina. Written via specialists within the box, all the seventeen chapters covers a particular step within the method, targeting the underlying molecular, mobile, and physiological mechanisms. there's additionally a distinct part on rising applied sciences, together with genomics, zebrafish genetics, and stem mobilephone biology which are commencing to yield vital new insights into retinal improvement. essentially aimed toward execs, either biologists and clinicians operating with the retina, this booklet offers a concise and up to date view of what's identified approximately vertebrate retinal improvement. because the retina is 'an approachable a part of the brain', this e-book can also be beautiful to all neuroscientists attracted to improvement, as approaches required to construct this exquisitely geared up process are finally proper to all different components of the primary anxious procedure.

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