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date: October 30, 2024 | ||
author: Adam Tyson | ||
location: London, England | ||
category: brainglobe | ||
language: English | ||
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# An atlas for the prairie vole _Microtus ochrogaster_ has been added to BrainGlobe | ||
Prairie voles are a valuable model species for studying social interaction due to their characteristic pair-bonding behavior. | ||
The brain of this species is structured similarly to the mouse and is only 30% larger, meaning it is particularly well suited to methods to map | ||
brain anatomy and function using light microscopy, such as light-sheet fluorescence microscopy and serial section two-photon microscopy. | ||
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To fully adopt these brain mapping techniques, a brain atlas is required (to use with tools such as | ||
[brainreg](/documentation/brainreg/index)). Such an atlas was created by | ||
[Gustison et al. (2024)](https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87029.3), and has been packaged into the BrainGlobe format by | ||
Sacha Hadaway-Andreae in collaboration with the BrainGlobe team. | ||
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![prairie vole brain atlas annotations](./images/prairie_vole_annotations.png) | ||
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**Figure 1. Coronal view of the prairie vole brain atlas annotations.** | ||
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This atlas can now be used within the BrainGlobe ecosystem, with the atlas name: `prairie_vole_25um`. | ||
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## How do I use the new atlas? | ||
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You can use the prairie vole atlas for visualisation like other BrainGlobe atlases. To visualise the atlas, you could follow the steps below: | ||
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* Install BrainGlobe ([instructions](/documentation/index)) | ||
* Open napari and follow the steps in our [download tutorial](/tutorials/manage-atlases-in-GUI.md) for the prairie vole atlas | ||
* Visualise the different parts of the atlas as described in our [visualisation tutorial](/tutorials/visualise-atlas-napari) | ||
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To use the atlas with other software such as [brainreg](/documentation/brainreg/index), please follow the instructions | ||
for those tools, and simply choose this atlas from the user interface. | ||
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## Why are we adding new atlases? | ||
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A fundamental aim of the BrainGlobe project is to make various brain atlases easily accessible by users across the globe. If you would like to get involved with a similar project, please [get in touch](/contact). |