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Science 16 July 1971:
Vol. 173. no. 3993, pp. 254 - 256
DOI: 10.1126/science.173.3993.254
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Connections of the Nurse Shark's Telencephalon

Sven O. E. Ebbesson 1 and Dolores M. Schroeder 1

1 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22903; Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Lerner Marine Laboratory, Bimini, Bahama Islands

The extrinsic connections of the telencephalon of the nurse shark are very largely crossed and in this respect differ from those identified in all other vertebrate species so far examined. Studies with Nauta and Fink-Heimer methods have revealed telencephalic projections to the contralateral thalamus and optic tectum as well as to ipsilateral brainstem and rostral spinal cord.


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