Axon order in the visual pathway of the quokka wallaby

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 390, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 333-341

  Chelvanayagam, D K ^a,b   Dunlop, S A ^a   Beazley, L D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axonal tracing; Macropod; Retinotopicity; Visual projections

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; MAMMAL; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; MACROPODIDAE; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; RETINA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0031982806     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980119)390:3<333::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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