Vomeronasal organ in bats and primates: Extremes of structural variability and its phylogenetic implications

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 465-475

  Bhatnagar, Kunwar P ^a   Meisami, Esmail ^b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessory olfactory bulb; Accessory olfactory system; Bats; Evolution; Jacobson's organ; Mammals; New World monkeys; Old World monkeys; Olfaction; Olfactory system; Primates; Prosimians; Vomeronasal complex

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; ODORS;

ACCESSORY OLFACTORY BULB; ACCESSORY OLFACTORY SYSTEM; BAT; EVOLUTION; JACOBSON ORGAN; NEW WORLD MONKEY; OLD WORLD MONKEY; OLFACTION; OLFACTORY BULBS; OLFACTORY SYSTEMS; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; VOMERONASAL COMPLEX;

PHYLOGENETIC;

ARTICLE; BAT; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; MINIOPTERUS; MORMOOPIDAE; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; PTERONOTUS; RODENTIA; STREPSIRHINI; TETRAPODA; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 0032535298     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19981215)43:6<465::AID-JEMT1>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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