Dual compartments of the ventral division of the medial geniculate body projecting to the core region of the auditory cortex in C57BL/6 mice

•MGv of mice is divided into medio lateral differentiated dual compartments.•The medial part of MGv projects to AAF, and the lateral part of MGv projects to AI.•Each compartment has independent tonotopic axis.•Lemniscal information should be processed via parallel thalamo-cortical pathways. We inves...

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