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Recently, our group proposed a radial morphological model to understand the glutamatergic (pallial) part of this nuclear complex in terms of separate progenitor domains. This model explains the amygdala region as consisting of several adjacent developmental radial progenitor units, disposing their distinct periventricular, intermediate, and superficial strata from the ventricle to the pial surface. It was expected that cell populations belonging to specific progenitor domains would present greater molecular similarity to each other than to neighboring developmental units. In this work, we aim to corroborate the existence of several radial domains in the pallial amygdala at the transcriptomic level. snRNAseq experiments in the amygdala of adult mice of both sexes indicated that at low resolution, the whole pallial amygdala was found to divide into two super-radial domains distinguished by differential expression of Slc17a6 and Slc17a7; the former partly imitates molecularly the subpallial (output) amygdalar regions, whereas the rest of the pallial amygdala is molecularly more akin to the surrounding cortical areas. 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