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Bohland JW, Wu C, Barbas H, Bokil H, Cline HT, Freed PJ, Greenspan RJ, Haber SN, Hawrylycz M, Herrera DG, Hilgetag CC, Huang ZJ, Jones A, Jones EG, Karten HJ, Kleinfeld D, Kotter R, Lester HA, Lin JM, Mikula S, Panksepp J, Safdieh J, Saper CB, Schiff ND, Stillman BW, Svoboda K, Swanson LW, Toga AW, Watson JD, Mitra PP (2009). A Proposal for a Coordinated Effort for the Determination of Brainwide Neuroanatomical Connectivity in Model Organisms at a Mesoscopic Scale. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(3): e1000334. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000334
Kim Y, Yang GR, Pradhan K, Venkataraju KU, Bota M, García Del Molino LC, Fitzgerald G, Ram K, He M, Levine JM, Mitra PP, Huang ZJ, Wang X-J, Osten P. Brain-wide Maps Reveal Stereotyped Cell-Type-Based Cortical Architecture and Subcortical Sexual Dimorphism. Cell. 2017 Oct 5;171(2):456–469.e22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.020
Jeong M, Kim Y, Kim J, Ferrante DD, Mitra PP, Osten P, Kim D. Comparative three-dimensional connectome map of motor cortical projections in the mouse brain. Scientific Reports. 2016 Feb 2;6(1):20072. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20072
Meng Kuan Lin, Yeonsook Shin Takahashi, Bing-Xing Huo, Mitsutoshi Hanada, Jaimi Nagashima, Junichi Hata, Alexander S Tolpygo, Keerthi Ram, Brian C Lee, Michael I Miller, Marcello G P Rosa, Erika Sasaki, Atsushi Iriki, Hideyuki Okano, Partha P Mitra (2018). A High-throughput Neurohistological Pipeline for Brain-Wide Mesoscale Connectivity Mapping of the Common Marmoset. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/315804
Karten HJ, Brzozowska-Prechtl A, Prechtl J, Wang H, Mitra PP (2008) Digital Atlas of the Zebra Finch Brain (Taeniopygia Guttata): a Dimensional and High Resolution Photo Atlas, Society for Neuroscience 2008.
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