Patterns of Vertebrate Neurogenesis and the Paths of Vertebrate Evolution

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 232-242

  Finlay, Barbara L ^a   Hersman, Michael N ^a   Darlington, Richard B ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Brain size; Marsupial mammals; Neurodevelopment; Neurogenesis; Placental mammals; Prosomere

Indexed keywords

EUTHERIA; MACACA MULATTA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0031610602     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006566     Document Type: Article

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