Yossi Yovel1, Omri Zomet1, Arieli Bonzach2, Assaf Marom1, and Yaniv Assaf1
Despite its importance, little is known
on the evolution of the mammalian brain. Previous work suggests that body size
and behavioral function are intertwined in their influence on the evolution of
the brain. Most previous studies focused on examining gray matter. Because the
underlying white matter connectome facilitates the connections between gray
matter areas, it must have simultaneously evolved to support gray matter
evolution. In this work we used a wide comparative approach relying on diffusion
MRI based fiber-tracking to reconstruct whole-brain structural connectomes and
explore its evolution.
