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. 2012 May 28;6:76. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00076

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Copyright © 2012 Hagemann and Scholpp.

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Morphological comparison of embryonic brain regions in different vertebrate embryos. (A) Zebrafish 36 hpf. (B) Chicken HH20. (C) Mouse 11.5 dpf (with courtesy of Salvador Martinez). In vertebrates the zona limitans intrathalamica (ZLI) forms as a morphological ridge between the prethalamus and the thalamus, whereas the isthmus rhombencephali (IST) marks the constriction between midbrain and hindbrain. Th, thalamus; PTh, prethalamus; HTh, Hypothalamus; Tel, Telencephalon; Teg, tegmentum; Tec, tectum; Cer, cerebellum; Mb, midbrain; DMB, diencephalic-mesencephalic boundary; Hi, hindbrain.