Connections of the auditory brainstem in a songbird, Taeniopygia guttata. II. Projections of nucleus angularis and nucleus laminaris to the superior olive and lateral lemniscal nuclei.
Three nuclei of the lateral lemniscus are present in the zebra finch, ventral (LLV), intermediate (LLI), and dorsal (LLD). LLV is separate from the superior olive (OS): it lies closer to the spinal lemniscus and extends much further rostrally around the pontine periphery. LLI extends from a caudal position ventrolateral to the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus (LLIc) to a rostral position medial to the ventrolateral parabrachial nucleus (LLIr). LLD consists of posterior (LLDp) and anterior (LLDa) parts, which are largely coextensive rostrocaudally, although LLDa lies medial to LLDp. All nuclei are identifiable on the basis of cytochrome oxidase activity. The cochlear nucleus angularis (NA) and the third-order nucleus laminaris (NL) project on OS predominantly ipsilaterally, on LLV and LLI predominantly contralaterally, and on LLD contralaterally only. The NA projections are heavier than those of NL and differ from them primarily in their terminations within LLD: NA projects to LLDp, whereas NL projects to LLDa. In this the projections are similar to those in the barn owl (Takahashi and Konishi [1988] J Comp Neurol 274:212-238), in which time and intensity pathways remain separate as far as the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus (MLd). In contrast, in the zebra finch, although NA and NL projections remain separate within LLD, the projections of LLDa and LLDp become intermixed within MLd (Wild et al., J Comp Neurol, this issue), consistent with the intermixing of the direct NA and NL projections to MLd (Krützfeldt et al., J Comp Neurol, this issue).
Krützfeldt
Nils O E
NO
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland, New Zealand.
Logerot
Priscilla
P
Kubke
M Fabiana
MF
Wild
J Martin
JM
D000818:Animals; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D017626:Cochlear Nucleus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D046369:Finches / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007245:Inferior Colliculi / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D008297:Male; D009847:Olivary Nucleus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000379:methods
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