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With the use of serial section and reconstructive computer graphic techniques we have found that during normal ontogeny of the mouse forebrain and before the arrival of the pioneer fibers of the corpus callosum at the midline, a population of primitive glial cells migrates medially (through the fused walls of the dorsal septum) from the ependymal zones of each hemisphere. At the midline, and well rostral to the lamina terminalis, these cells unite to form a bridgelike structure of \u201csling\u201d suspended below the longitudinal cerebral fissure. The first callosal axons grow along the surface of this cellular bridge as they travel toward the contralateral side of the brain. The \u201csling\u201d disappears neonatally. The fibers of the anterior commissure grow within the lamina terminalis along a different type of preformed glial structure. Movement of these axons occurs through an aligned system of glial processes separated by wide extracellular spaces.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Do these transient glial tissues actually provide guidance cues to the commissural axons? Analyses of three situations in which the glial \u201csling\u201d is genetically or surgically impaired or nonexistent indicate that this structure does, indeed, play an essential role in the development of the corpus callosum. We have analyzed (1) the embryonic stages of a congenitally acallosal mouse mutant (strain BALB\/cCF), (2) several pouch stages of a primitive acallosal marsupial, <jats:italic>Didelphys virginiana<\/jats:italic> (opossum), and (3) animals in which the \u201csling\u201d had been lesioned surgically through the uterine wall in the normal embryo (strain C57BL\/6J).<\/jats:p><jats:p>In the acallosal mouse mutant fusion of the septal midline is delayed by about 72 hours and the \u201csling\u201d does not form. 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