A mosaic pattern characterizes the evolution of the avian brain

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2004, Pages

  Iwaniuk, Andrew N ^a,b   Dean, Karen M ^a   Nelson, John E ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Brain structure; Correlated evolution

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BRAIN; EVOLUTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FOWL; MOSAICISM; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2342574210     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0127     Document Type: Article

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