Forebrain > Diencephalon> Pretectum
Schematic showing the position of the pretectum in sagittal, horizontal and coronal sections through the zebrafish brain.
Based on the anatomical segmentation of 3 day old zebrafish larval brain by Thomas Müller, Olaf Ronneberger, Wolfgang Driever and colleagues. For details see Ronneberger et al., Nat. Meth. 2012 and http://vibez.informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Abbreviations: Ce, cerebellar plate; D, dorsal telencephalon/pallium; E, epiphysis; EmT, eminentia thalami; Hb, habenula; Hyp, hypothalamus; MO, medulla oblongata; OB, olfactory bulb; OT, optic tectum; PG, preglomerular complex; PO, preoptic area;PrT, pretectum; PTd, posterior tuberculum dorsal part; PTh, prethalamus; PTv posterior tuberculum ventral part; Teg, tegmentum; Th, thalamus; TS, torus semicircularis; V, ventral telencephalon/subpallium; Va, valvula cerebelli.
Description
The pretectal region forms the dorsal most part of the diencephalon. The main sensory input to the pretectum is visual with axons from a subset of retinal ganglion cells branch off and arborise in arborisation fields in the pretectum on their way to innervate the optic tectum (Robles et al., 2014).
Ontology
is part of: diencephalon
has parts: superficial pretectum, central pretectum, periventricular pretectal nucleus.
Anatomical segmentation of 3 day old zebrafish larval brain by Thomas Müller, Olaf Ronneberger, Wolfgang Driever and colleagues. For details see Ronneberger et al., Nat. Meth. 2012 and http://vibez.informatik.uni-freiburg.de
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Key Publications
Antinucci P, Folgueira M, Bianco IH.
Pretectal neurons control hunting behaviour.
eLife (2019) 8 doi.org/10.7554/eLife.48114
Estuardo Robles, Eva Laurell, and Herwig Baier (2014)
The Retinal Projectome Reveals Brain- Area-Specific Visual Representations Generated by Ganglion Cell Diversity.
Current Biology 24, 2085–2096.
Burrill, J.D., and Easter, S.S., Jr. (1994).
Development of the retinofugal projections in the embryonic and larval zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio).
J. Comp. Neurol. 346, 583–600.
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