Observations on the vomeronasal organ of prenatal Tarsius bancanus borneanus with implications for ancestral morphology

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 473-481

  Smith, Timothy D ^a,b   Siegel, M I ^b   Bhatnagar, K P ^c  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Haplorhini; Jacobson's organ; Prosimii; Vomeronasal neuroepithelium

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FETUS; HAPLORHINI; MONKEY; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; CEBIDAE; CHEIROGALEIDAE; EPITHELIUM; EVOLUTION; TARSIIDAE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALIA; ANTHROPOIDEA; HAPLORHINI; MAMMALIA; MICROCEBUS; MICROCEBUS MYOXINUS; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI; TARSIUS; TARSIUS BANCANUS;

EID: 0345307254     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.2003.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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