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Motor Cortical Projections to Auditory and Vocal Regions Expanded in Alston’s Singing Mouse vs. Lab Mouse

Researchers identified specific expansions in orofacial motor cortical projections to auditory and midbrain regions in Scotinomys teguina compared with Mus musculus. The paper, published in Nature, used high-throughput techniques on more than 76,000 barcoded neurons. Results sugg…