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. 2014 Jul 2;8:117. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00117

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Copyright © 2014 Baizer, Sherwood, Noonan and Hof.

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Morphology of the claustrum in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). (A) Coronal section through the brain of a 4 year old Tursiops. The arrows point to the location of the claustrum around the anterior portion of the insular pocket and to the highly unusual distribution of many claustral island along cortical gyri in the prefrontal cortex, shown at higher magnification in (B). (C) Cellular details of one island of claustral neurons in the anterior portion of the ectosylvian gyrus. Scale bars = 1 cm (A), 4 mm (B), and 100 μm (C).