Large retinal ganglion cells in the pipid frog Xenopus laevis form independent, regular mosaics resembling those of teleost fishes

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 811-826

  Shamim, K M ^a,b   Toth P ^c   Cook, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Classification; Dendritic tree; Homology; Natural type; Tessellation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031239973     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380001155X     Document Type: Article

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