Symposium on Vision in Elasmobranchs, Note Marine Laboratory, Florida, April 28-29, 1989

结构和功能的多样性直接促成了 动物的感官能力。 受体、处理器和效应器 单位允许动物利用感官信息作为 环境资源 感觉系统的比较研究是 重要的是，它可能有助于解释相对进化的 某些物种的成功。 这次跨学科会议 以这种综合的视角来审视视觉， 软骨分支分支鱼类，包括鲨鱼和鳐。 板鳃亚纲动物是一种相对较小但在进化上 非常重要的脊椎动物群。 其中一些物种 动物有相对原始的组织， 系统，其他物种有显着专门的适应; 视觉是显示这种多样性的一种感觉。 最近各种 研究探索了视觉生物化学，解剖学，生理学， 和行为。 这次会议将结合 这些关于视觉功能的最新信息 系统的板鳃类，其关系，生态因素，和 对理解脊椎动物视觉的重要性。 这 会议对于神经科学来说是新颖的，因为它没有使用 不同的动物从亚细胞或 从细胞的角度来看，它使用一个动物群体来观察感官， 从亚细胞的角度来看， 生态的 这项工作将对视觉科学的工作产生影响， 对其他感官系统、生态学和海洋生物学的影响。

Structural and functional diversity directly contribute to an animal's sensory abilities. Receptor, processor and effector units allow an animal to utilize sensory information as an environmental resource. Comparative study of sensory systems is important because it may help explain the relative evolutionary success of certain species. This interdisciplinary conference takes this integrative perspective to examine vision in elasmobranch branch fishes, which include the sharks and rays. Elasmobranchs represent a relatively small but evolutionarily very important group of vertebrates. While some species of these animals have relatively primitive organization of certain systems, other species have remarkably specialized adaptations; vision is one sense showing such diversity. A variety of recent studies have explored visual biochemistry, anatomy, physiology, and behavior in these animals. This conference will coalesce this recent information around the functioning of the visual system of elasmobranchs, its relation to ecological factors, and its importance to understanding vision in the vertebrates. This conference is novel for neuroscience because instead of using different animals to look at functions from a subcellular or cellular perspective, it uses one animal group to look at sensory function from perspectives ranging from the subcellular to the ecological. The work will have impact on work on visual science, on other sensory systems, on ecology and on marine biology.