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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Comp Neurol. 2018 Apr 6;526(9):1550–1570. doi: 10.1002/cne.24428

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Dorsal thalamus in Bengalese finches as shown in parasagittal series. We adopted nomenclature from atlases and previously published literature as described in the Methods section “Nomenclature of Dorsal Thalamus”. Note that by DLM and DMP we mean the thalamic nuclei found only in songbirds which project to cortical nuclei LMAN and MMAN of the song system, respectively, and not the regions in non-songbird species that share the same names. Series of Nissl-stained parasagittal sections moving from medial (a) to lateral (f). Distance lateral is from midline in this figure is sum of the number of sections from midline (determined as described in Methods) multiplied by section thickness, but not adjusted to account for shrinkage due to fixation. Abbreviations: DIP, dorsointermediate posterior nucleus, DLA, dorsolateral anterior nucleus, DLL, dorsolateral lateral nucleus, DLP, Dorsolateral posterior nucleus, DMP, dorsomedial posterior nucleus, Hb, habenula, IC, inferior colliculus, OM, occipto-mesencephalic tract, PC, posterior commissure. Scale bar in a is 500 μm. Left is anterior, dorsal is up.