CETA Database introduction

Birds have exceptionally sharp vision, facilitated by the retina, a specialised neural tissue in the eye involved in photoreception and -transduction. In addition, the bird is unique in its lack of internal blood vessels, a key characteristic of neural tissues in other endothermic animals. Thus, the bird retina represents a key tissue for understanding mechanisms associated with visual function and metabolic physiology.

The bird retina is housed within the bird eye, confined within the scleral connective tissue and the choroid behind the retina, and the vitreous and cornea on the light-facing side of the retina. Within the vitreous, a vascular structure called the pecten oculi is involved in supplying nutrients to the retina.

The CETA database allows researchers to explore gene expression of the eyes of zebra finch, chicken, pigeon and anole lizards using spatial transcriptomics and the zebra finch retina in individual cell types using single-cell transcriptomics.

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