Vision in Fishes: New Approaches in Research (Nato Science Series A:, 1)

No more than a fish loves water. - Is not this a strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently seems to undertake this business, which he knows is not to be done; damns himself to do, and dares better be damn'd than to dolt? All's Well That Ends Well Act III, Sc. 6 This volume is the direct result of a NATO-Advanced Study Institute of the same title. held at Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada, August 1974, under the joint sponsor­ ship of the NATO-Scientific Advisory Committee, National Research Council of Canada and the Universite de Montreal. It is not, however, strictly restricted to the lectures and seminars pre­ sented at the ASI. Contributions have been included from two workers who found at a fairly late stage that they could not attend and also included are a table giving the visual pigments and an­ other dealing with the distribution and development of retinomotor responses. I encouraged the authors to prepare speculative reviews highlighting their own research or that of their immediate col­ leagues and a number of them have done so. Several contributors, notably those who were asked to give lectures of a general nature at the ASI have written reviews of somewhat greater scope. The result is a collection of papers representing a great variety of approaches to the study of vision in fishes. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Photochemical Efficiency of Chromoproteins. Role of the Molecular Environment....Pages 3-16 Photophysical Processes in Visual Pigments....Pages 17-26 Monolayer Studies of Visual Pigments....Pages 27-32 Marquage Par Spin des Membranes de Batonnets....Pages 33-41 Microspectrophotometry: The Technique and Some of Its Pitfalls....Pages 43-54 Linear Dichroism of Rods and Cones....Pages 55-65 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Microelectrode Study of the Physiology of Neurons in the Fish Retina....Pages 69-79 Structural Studies of Functional Pathways in Goldfish Retina....Pages 81-90 A Model for the Ganglionic Receptive Field Organisation....Pages 91-98 Giant Retinal Ganglion Cells in Dogfish ( Mustelus ): Electrophysiology of Single On-Centre Units....Pages 99-112 Central Projections of the Retina and Vision....Pages 113-126 Reponses Visuelles Unitaires Chez la Truite....Pages 127-135 Electrophysiological Analysis of Retino-Tectal Synapses in Teleosts....Pages 137-144 Retinotectal Specificity in Adult Goldfish....Pages 145-150 Cytoarchitecture and Connexions Of the Teleostean Optic Tectum....Pages 151-158 Electroretinography as a Tool for Studying Fish Vision....Pages 159-167 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 Methods of Research For Neurotransmitter Substances: General Introduction....Pages 171-174 Methods to Investigate the Function of Certain Amino Acids in the CNS....Pages 175-185 The Microiontophoretic Approach....Pages 187-202 Methods of Study for Biogenic Amines....Pages 203-210 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 High Resolution Radioautography of Noradrenergic Axon Terminals in the Neocortex....Pages 211-232 Chemical Neurotransmission in the Retina of the Teleost Eugerres Plumieri ....Pages 233-244 The Retina as a Model of the Brain....Pages 245-249 Front Matter....Pages 251-251 The Structure and Phylogeny of Iridescent Corneas in Fishes....Pages 253-262 The Iridescent Cornea of the Sand Goby Pomatoschistus Minutus (Pallas)....Pages 263-278 Refractive State, Accommodation, and Resolving Power of the Fish Eye....Pages 279-288 Accommodative Mechanisms in Aquatic Vertebrates....Pages 289-297 Tapeta Lucida and the Organisation of Visual Cells in Teleosts....Pages 299-304 Theoretical Considerations about Tapeta Lucida....Pages 305-312 Retinomotor Responses....Pages 313-355 Approaches to the Study of Contractility in the Rods and Cones....Pages 357-368 Distribution and Development of Retinomotor Responses....Pages 369-396 Horizontal Eye Movements in Fish....Pages 397-407 Front Matter....Pages 409-409 Development of the Optic Tectum in Brown Trout....Pages 411-417 Genetic Paths Leading to Blindness in Astyanax Mexicanus ....Pages 419-426 The Eyes of Larval Fish....Pages 427-443 Extraretinal Photosensitivity in Fish Larvae....Pages 445-450 Retinal Growth in Adult Goldfish....Pages 451-457 A Unique Lactate Dehydrogenase Isozyme in the Teleost Retina....Pages 459-470 Landolt’s Club in Some Primitive Fishes....Pages 471-480 Front Matter....Pages 409-409 Visual Pigments: Phylogeny and Ecology....Pages 481-516 Comparative Analysis of the Patterns of Receptor and Horizontal Cells in Teleost Fishes....Pages 517-524 Duplex Vision in the Elasmobranchs: Histological, Electrophysiological and Psychophysical Evidence....Pages 525-540 Front Matter....Pages 541-541 Assessing the Fitness of Visual Pigments for their Photic Environments....Pages 543-563 Visual Pigments and the Environment....Pages 565-578 Studies on the Eyes of Fishes: Structure and Ultrastructure....Pages 579-607 Retinal Specialisations for Aquatic Vision: Theory and Facts....Pages 609-617 Problems of Seeing Colours under Water....Pages 619-634 Rhodopsin — Porphyropsin Changes in Paired-Pigment Fishes....Pages 635-644 Some Problems of Deep-Sea Fish Eyes....Pages 645-655 Prospects in the Study of Interrelationships between Vision and Bioluminescence....Pages 657-671 The Role of the Pseudobranch and Choroid Rete Mirabile in Fish Vision....Pages 673-678 Quantitative Changes of Synaptic Ribbons in the Cone Pedicles of Nannacara : Light Dependent or Governed by a Circadian Rhythm?....Pages 679-686 Front Matter....Pages 687-687 Psychophysical Methods for Investigations of Vision in Fishes....Pages 689-704 Behavioural Studies of Vision in a Fish and Possible Relationships to the Environment....Pages 705-717 Do Fish Have an Absolute Sense of Light Intensity?....Pages 719-729 Behavioural Studies of the Discrimination of Visual Orientation and Motion by the Goldfish....Pages 731-741 A Behavioural Test of Rod-Red Cone Convergence in the Goldfish Retina....Pages 743-748 The Area of the Stimulus Eliciting Response as a Factor in Mirror Image Reversal....Pages 749-753 Front Matter....Pages 755-755 Fish Vision and Applied Research....Pages 757-773 Front Matter....Pages 755-755 Ophthalmic Diseases of Fishes....Pages 775-781 Back Matter....Pages 783-836