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Hierarchical organization of cortical and thalamic connectivity

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  • Julie A. Harris

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Stefan Mihalas

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Karla E. Hirokawa

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Jennifer D. Whitesell

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Hannah Choi

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science
    Department of Applied Mathematics)

  • Amy Bernard

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Phillip Bohn

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Shiella Caldejon

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Linzy Casal

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Andrew Cho

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Aaron Feiner

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • David Feng

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Nathalie Gaudreault

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Charles R. Gerfen

    (National Institute of Mental Health)

  • Nile Graddis

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Peter A. Groblewski

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Alex M. Henry

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Anh Ho

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Robert Howard

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Joseph E. Knox

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Leonard Kuan

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Xiuli Kuang

    (Wenzhou Medical University)

  • Jerome Lecoq

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Phil Lesnar

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Yaoyao Li

    (Wenzhou Medical University)

  • Jennifer Luviano

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Stephen McConoughey

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Marty T. Mortrud

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Maitham Naeemi

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Lydia Ng

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Seung Wook Oh

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Benjamin Ouellette

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Elise Shen

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Staci A. Sorensen

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Wayne Wakeman

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Quanxin Wang

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Yun Wang

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Ali Williford

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • John W. Phillips

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Allan R. Jones

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Christof Koch

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

  • Hongkui Zeng

    (Allen Institute for Brain Science)

Abstract

The mammalian cortex is a laminar structure containing many areas and cell types that are densely interconnected in complex ways, and for which generalizable principles of organization remain mostly unknown. Here we describe a major expansion of the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas resource1, involving around a thousand new tracer experiments in the cortex and its main satellite structure, the thalamus. We used Cre driver lines (mice expressing Cre recombinase) to comprehensively and selectively label brain-wide connections by layer and class of projection neuron. Through observations of axon termination patterns, we have derived a set of generalized anatomical rules to describe corticocortical, thalamocortical and corticothalamic projections. We have built a model to assign connection patterns between areas as either feedforward or feedback, and generated testable predictions of hierarchical positions for individual cortical and thalamic areas and for cortical network modules. Our results show that cell-class-specific connections are organized in a shallow hierarchy within the mouse corticothalamic network.

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  • Julie A. Harris & Stefan Mihalas & Karla E. Hirokawa & Jennifer D. Whitesell & Hannah Choi & Amy Bernard & Phillip Bohn & Shiella Caldejon & Linzy Casal & Andrew Cho & Aaron Feiner & David Feng & Nath, 2019. "Hierarchical organization of cortical and thalamic connectivity," Nature, Nature, vol. 575(7781), pages 195-202, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:575:y:2019:i:7781:d:10.1038_s41586-019-1716-z
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1716-z
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