Neuroanatomy of the killer whale (Orcinus orca) from magnetic resonance images

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 281, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1256-1263

  Marino, Lori ^a   Sherwood, Chet C ^b,c   Delman, Bradley N ^d   Tang, Cheuk Y ^d   Naidich, Thomas P ^d   Hof, Patrick R ^c,d,e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Foundation for Comparative and Conservation Biology   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NY Consortium in Evol Primatology   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Delphinid, cetacea; Killer whale; MRI; Orcinus arca

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CETACEA; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEMISPHERE; INSULA; KILLER WHALE; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CETACEA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROANATOMY;

ARCA; CETACEA; ORCINUS; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 10044296024     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20075     Document Type: Article

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