Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest mechanism of cone mosaic formation
H. Nunley, M. Nagashima, K. Martin, A. Lorenzo Gonzalez, S. C. Suzuki, D. Norton, R. O. L. Wong, P. A. Raymond, D. K. Lubensky
The paper studies Y-Junction defects in zebrafish retinas to understand cone mosaic formation, finding that grain boundaries form during initial growth without defect motion.
bioRxiv · Oct 16, 2019Biophysics