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Injections of large doses of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) into the telencephalon of the squirrel fish (Holocentrus rufus) revealed the first anatomical evidence for a visual thalamo-telencephalic projection in a teleost. The central optic nucleus of the thalamus appears to be the only visual thalamic nucleus projecting to the telencephalon in this species. Since the central optic nucleus has a large tectal input but not a direct one from the retina, it is suggested that a retino-geniculo-telencephalic pathway does not exist in this species.
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Acknowledgements. The author is grateful to Drs. J. Maldonado, Dietrich Meyer and Henning Scheich for encouragement and support in this endeavor. The study was supported by: National Institutes of Health grant EY-02014 and EY-03264, a NIH grant to Dr. José del Castillo and the German Science Foundation (SFB 45)
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Ebbesson, S.O.E. A visual thalamo-telencephalic pathway in a teleost fish (Holocentrus rufus). Cell Tissue Res. 213, 505–508 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00237895
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