“Shepherd’s crook” neurons drive and synchronize the enhancing and suppressive mechanisms of the midbrain stimulus selection network.
Garrido-Charad F, Vega-Zuniga T, Gutiérrez-Ibáñez C, Fernandez P, López-Jury L, González-Cabrera C, Karten HJ, Luksch H, Marín GJ. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Aug 7;115(32):E7615-E7623.
The Medial Ventrothalamic Circuitry: Cells Implicated in a Bimodal Network.
Vega-Zuniga T, Trost D, Schicker K, Bogner EM, Luksch H. Front Neural Circuits. 2018 Feb 9;12:9.
The centrifugal visual system of a palaeognathous bird, the Chilean Tinamou (Nothoprocta perdicaria).
Krabichler Q, Vega-Zuniga T, Carrasco D, Fernandez M, Gutiérrez-Ibáñez C, Marín G, Luksch H. J Comp Neurol. 2017 Aug 1;525(11):2514-2534.
Selective binocular vision loss in two subterranean caviomorph rodents: Spalacopus cyanus and Ctenomys talarum.
Vega-Zuniga T, Medina FS, Marín G, Letelier JC, Palacios AG, Němec P, Schleich CE, Mpodozis J. Sci Rep. 2017 Feb 2;7:41704. doi: 10.1038/srep41704.
Congruent representation of visual and acoustic space in the superior colliculus of the echolocating bat Phyllostomus discolor.
Hoffmann S, Vega-Zuniga T, Greiter W, Krabichler Q, Bley A, Matthes M, Zimmer C, Firzlaff U, Luksch H. Eur J Neurosci. 2016 Nov;44(9):2685-2697.
Microconnectomics of the pretectum and ventral thalamus in the chicken (Gallus gallus).
Vega-Zuniga T, Marín G, González-Cabrera C, Planitscher E, Hartmann A, Marks V, Mpodozis J, Luksch H. J Comp Neurol. 2016 Aug 1;524(11):2208-29.
The visual system of a palaeognathous bird: visual field, retinal topography and retino-central connections in the Chilean tinamou (Nothoprocta perdicaria).
Krabichler Q, Vega-Zuniga T, Morales C, Luksch H, Marín GJ. J Comp Neurol. 2015 Feb 1;523(2):226-50.
Morphology, projection pattern, and neurochemical identity of Cajal’s “centrifugal neurons”: the cells of origin of the tectoventrogeniculate pathway in pigeon (Columba livia) and chicken (Gallus gallus).
Vega-Zuniga T, Mpodozis J, Karten HJ, Marín G, Hain S, Luksch H. J Comp Neurol. 2014 Jul 1;522(10):2377-96.
Does nocturnality drive binocular vision? Octodontine rodents as a case study.
Vega-Zuniga T, Medina FS, Fredes F, Zuniga C, Severín D, Palacios AG, Karten HJ, Mpodozis J. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 31;8(12):e84199.
Bilateral and ipsilateral ascending tectopulvinar pathways in mammals: a study in the squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi).
Fredes F, Vega-Zuniga T, Karten H, Mpodozis J. J Comp Neurol. 2012 Jun 1;520(8):1800-18.