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Hanging by the tail: progenitor populations proliferate

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A study now identifies a new progenitor subtype in the developing mouse cortex, similar to the outer radial glia progenitors described previously in human, ferret and other mammals with larger, folded brains.

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Figure 1: Comparisons of mouse and human cortical germinal zones.

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  1. Navneet A. Vasistha and Fernando Garcia-Moreno are in the Department of Physiology, Zoltán Molnár, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,

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