Chordate evolution and the origin of craniates: An old brain in a new head

Anatomical Record

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 111-125

  Butler, Ann B ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ivory Tower Neurobiology Institute ^*  (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Cephalochordate; Cerebral vesicle; Comparative anatomy; Cranial nerves; Evolution; Neural crest; Placodes; Visual system

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN STEM; DIENCEPHALON; ECTODERM; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL CREST; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSE ORGAN; SKULL; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA;

EID: 0034659438     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0185(20000615)261:3<111::AID-AR6>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Review

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