Retinal ganglion cells in the eye project their axons to the optic tectum, the visual center of the tadpole brain, where they form synapses directly onto tectal neurons. Because Xenopus tadpoles are ...

In the study "Transcriptomic neuron types vary topographically in function and morphology," published in Nature, single-cell RNA sequencing was used to profile tectal neurons six to seven days ...