Genome size, secondary simplification, and the evolution of the brain in salamanders

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 50-59

  Roth, Gerhard ^a   Nishikawa, Kiisa C ^b   Wake, David B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Comparative neuroanatomy; Evolution; Genome size; Paedomorphosis; Phylogenetic analysis; Vertebrates; Visual system

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; MYXINIDAE; PETROMYZONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HISTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; EVOLUTION; GENOME; NEURONS; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; URODELA;

EID: 0031184378     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113321     Document Type: Article

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