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The Telencephalon of Teleosts

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Comparative Neurology of the Telencephalon

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The structure of the teleost forebrain (and that of other actinopterygians) is unusual in that there are no lateral ventricles and the two hemispheres are solid lobes separated by a slitlike ventricle. The lobes are covered with an ependymal membrane which is attached to the dorsolateral margins of the hemispheres. One suggestion has been that this forebrain structure is the result of a process of eversion during development (Gage, 1893; Holmgren, 1922; Miller, 1940; Källén, 1947, 1951), whereas the forebrains of most other vertebrates develop by inversion followed by an evagination (Fig. 1B). The proposed eversion growth process would rearrange the functional organization of the dorsal telencephalon, and thus the hippocampal pallium would be in a lateral position, the general cortex dorsal, and the pyriform pallium dorsomedial (Fig. 1C), departing markedly from the arrangement found in inverted-evaginated brains, where the hippocampal pallium is dorsomedial and the pyriform pallium lateral (Fig. 1B).

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Schroeder, D.M. (1980). The Telencephalon of Teleosts. In: Ebbesson, S.O.E. (eds) Comparative Neurology of the Telencephalon. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2988-6_4

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