ArticleThe Journal of comparative neurology2012
Organization of the auditory brainstem in a lizard, Gekko gecko. I. Auditory nerve, cochlear nuclei, and superior olivary nuclei.
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- Organization of the Auditory Brainstem in a Lizard, Gekko gecko. II. Afferent and Efferent Projections of Nuclei of the Lateral Lemniscus and the Torus Semicircularis.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
- Auditory pathway for detection of vibration in the tokay gecko.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Central projections of auditory nerve fibers in the western rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus).The Journal of comparative neurology · 2023Article
- Molecular identity of the lateral lemniscus nuclei in the adult mouse brain.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2023Article
- Strongly directional responses to tones and conspecific calls in the auditory nerve of the Tokay gecko,Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Neural Maps of Interaural Time Difference in the American Alligator: A Stable Feature in Modern Archosaurs.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Inhibitory Neural Circuits in the Mammalian Auditory Midbrain.Journal of experimental neuroscience · 2018Review
- Evolution of Sound Source Localization Circuits in the Nonmammalian Vertebrate Brainstem.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2017Article
- Coupled ears in lizards and crocodilians.Biological cybernetics · 2016Review
- Evolutionary trends in directional hearing.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2016Review
- Sound localization in the alligator.Hearing research · 2015Review
- Sound Localization Strategies in Three Predators.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2015Review
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We used tract tracing to reveal the connections of the auditory brainstem in the Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko). The auditory nerve has two divisions, a rostroventrally directed projection of mid- to high best-frequency fibers to the nucleus angularis (NA) and a more dorsal and caudal projection of low to middle best-frequency fibers that bifurcate to project to both the NA and the nucleus magnocellularis (NM). The projection to NM formed large somatic terminals and bouton terminals. NM projected bilaterally to the second-order nucleus laminaris (NL), such that the ipsilateral projection innervated the dorsal NL neuropil, whereas the contralateral projection crossed the midline and innervated the ventral dendrites of NL neurons. Neurons in NL were generally bitufted, with dorsoventrally oriented dendrites. NL projected to the contralateral torus semicircularis and to the contralateral ventral superior olive (SOv). NA projected to ipsilateral dorsal superior olive (SOd), sent a major projection to the contralateral SOv, and projected to torus semicircularis. The SOd projected to the contralateral SOv, which projected back to the ipsilateral NM, NL, and NA. These results suggest homologous patterns of auditory connections in lizards and archosaurs but also different processing of low- and high-frequency information in the brainstem.
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