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The gross structure as well as the neuronal and non-neuronal components of the lamina ganglionaris of the locust Schistocerca gregaria are described on the basis of light- and electron-microscopical preparations of Golgj (selective silver) and ordinary histological preparations. The array of optic cartridges within the lamina neuropile — their order and arrangement — and the composition of the cartridges are described. There are six types of monopolar neurons: three whose branches reach to other cartridges and three whose branches are confined to their own cartridges. Retinula axons terminate either in the lamina or the medulla neuropiles. There are three types of centrifugal neurons, two types of horizontal neuron, as well as glia and trachea in the lamina neuropile. The development of the lamina neuropile is described in terms of developing monopolar and centrifugal axons, growing retinula fibres, and composition of the developing optic cartridges.
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MSN was supported in part by a Fulbrights-Hays Scholarsship. We are grateful to the Science Research Council for its grant to PMJS.
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Nowel, M.S., Shelton, P.M.J. A Golgi-electron-microscopical study of the structure and development of the lamina ganglionaris of the locust optic lobe. Cell Tissue Res. 216, 377–401 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00233626
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