Developmental plasticity: To preserve the individual or to create a new species?

Novartis Foundation Symposium

Volumn 228, Issue , 2000, Pages 227-239

  Welker, Egbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BREEDING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOUSE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MICE;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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