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The auditory portion of the eighth cranial nerve (the cochlear nerve) contains a neuronal population which has been well documented only in a few species of small rodents belonging to the Muridae family.1
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López, D.E., Merchán, M.A., Bajo, V.M., Saldaña, E. (1993). The Cochlear Root Neurons in the Rat, Mouse and Gerbil. In: Merchán, M.A., Juiz, J.M., Godfrey, D.A., Mugnaini, E. (eds) The Mammalian Cochlear Nuclei. NATO ASI series, vol 239. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2932-3_23
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