Evolution of Nerve Development in Frogs: II. Modified Development of the Peripheral Nervous System in the Direct-Developing Frog Eleutherodactylus coqui (Leptodactylidae)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 94-128

  Schlosser, Gerhard ^a,b   Roth, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial nerves; Direct development; Eleutherodactylus coqui; Evolution; Heterochrony; Nerve development; Outgroup comparison; Physalaemus pustulosus; Whole mount immunohistochemistry; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CRANIAL NERVES; EVOLUTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030633723     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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