Reposted by Dr. Sophie Barton
🐾 Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences.
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Dr. Sophie Barton
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Newly minted PhD of Hecht Lab of Harvard University. Studying how selection shapes the brains & behaviors of working dogs, village dogs, New Guinea singing dogs, and domesticated foxes 🐶 🦊 🧠 caninebrains.org sophiealexandrabarton.com ngsdconservation.org
![A multipanel figure showing a cartoon of a songbird head, a cartoon diagram of a songbird brain, and three black and white images showing the cellular structure of the brain region we focused on, PrV. The following is the legend that accompanies the figure. (a) Shows in different colours the areas of the innervation in the head, beak and tongue by the three branches of the trigeminal nerve (V1-V3) and the hypoglossal nerve (XII) in a songbird and the respective areas of innervation in the principal sensory nucleus of the trigeminal nerve (PrV; based on Faunes & Wild [26]). (b–d) Microphotographs of Nissl-stained coronal sections through the principal sensory in nucleus of the trigeminal nerve (PrV) in three species of songbirds: (b) the pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator, Fringillidae); (c) the field sparrow (Spizella pusilla, Passerellidae); (d) the Carolina chickadee (Poecile carolinensis, Parulidae).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gfvjxniv5ylppk263f44p3zs/bafkreighnpetcjup2wmdlgcpcxvdkjhk3hyamr3vukgl2zmq54jxohlfbu)
