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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY
Volume 521, Issue 16, Pages 3702-3715Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23443
Keywords
oscine songbird; Nissl and myelin stain; website; brain drawings
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [NS50436]
- W.M. Keck Foundation
- Crick-Clay Professorship
- NIH/NIGMS [R24 GM092842]
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We describe a set of new comprehensive, high-quality, high-resolution digital images of histological sections from the brain of male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) and make them publicly available through an interactive website (http://zebrafinch.brainarchitecture.org/). These images provide a basis for the production of a dimensionally accurate and detailed digital nonstereotaxic atlas. Nissl- and myelin-stained brain sections are provided in the transverse, sagittal, and horizontal planes, with the transverse plane approximating the more traditional Frankfurt plane. In addition, a separate set of brain sections in this same plane is stained for tyrosine hydroxylase, revealing the distribution of catecholaminergic neurons (dopaminergic, noradrenergic, and adrenergic) in the songbird brain. For a subset of sagittal sections we also prepared a corresponding set of drawings, defining and annotating various nuclei, fields, and fiber tracts that are visible under Nissl and myelin staining. This atlas of the zebra finch brain is expected to become an important tool for birdsong research and comparative studies of brain organization and evolution. J. Comp. Neurol. 521:3702-3715, 2013. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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