Structure and innervation of the vibrissal follicle-sinus complex in the Australian water rat, Hydromys chrysogaster

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 411, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 550-562

  Dehnhardt, Guido ^a   Hyvärinen, Heikki ^b   Palviainen, Anne ^b   Klauer, Gertrud ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Hydromys; Mechanoreception; Vibrissae; Water rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; INNERVATION; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE ORGAN; VIBRISSA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HAIR FOLLICLE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MURIDAE; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0345583685     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990906)411:4<550::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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