A three-dimensional digital neurological atlas of the mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii).

ABSTRACT: Substantial knowledge of auditory processing within mammalian nervous systems emerged from neurophysiological studies of the mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii). This highly social and vocal species retrieves precise information about the velocity and range of its targets through echolocation. Such high acoustic processing demands were likely the evolutionary pressures driving the over-development at peripheral (cochlea), metencephalic (cochlear nucleus), mesencephalic (inferior colliculus), diencephalic (medial geniculate body of the thalamus), and telencephalic (auditory cortex) auditory processing levels in this species. Auditory researchers stand to benefit from a three dimensional brain atlas of this species, due to its considerable contribution to auditory neuroscience. Our MRI-base

SUBMITTER: Washington SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6541419 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature