The mechanisms that establish behavioral, cognitive, and neuroanatomical asymmetries are
poorly understood. In this study, we analyze the events that regulate development of …

Animals show behavioral asymmetries that are mediated by differences between the left and
right sides of the brain. We report that the laterality of asymmetric development of the …

Background Functional lateralization is a conserved feature of the central nervous system
(CNS). However, underlying left-right asymmetries within neural circuitry and the …

The brains of humans and other animals are asymmetrically organized, but we still know
little about the ontogenetic and neural fundaments of lateralizations. Here, we review the …

The habenulae are evolutionarily conserved bilateral nuclei in the epithalamus that relay
input from the forebrain to the ventral midbrain. In zebrafish, the habenulae display left-right …

The vertebrate brain is anatomically and functionally asymmetric; however, the molecular
mechanisms that establish left-right brain patterning are largely unknown. In zebrafish …

How the left and right sides of the brain acquire anatomical and functional specializations is
not well understood. The zebrafish has proven to be a useful model to explore the genetic …

How the brain becomes lateralized is poorly understood. By contrast, much is known about
molecular cues that specify the left–right axis of the body, fashioning the asymmetric …

Nodal activity in the left lateral plate mesoderm (LPM) is required to activate left-sided Nodal
signaling in the epithalamic region of the zebrafish forebrain. Epithalamic Nodal signaling …

Comparative studies on brain asymmetry date back to the 19th century but then largely
disappeared due to the assumption that lateralization is uniquely human. Since the …