Ontogenetic Observations on the Vomeronasal Organ in Two Species of Tamarins Using Neuron-Specific β-Tubulin III

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

Volumn 278, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 409-418

  Smith, Timothy D ^a,b   Dennis, John C ^c   Bhatnagar, Kunwar P ^d   Bonar, Christopher J ^e   Burrows, Annie M ^b,f   Morrison, Edward E ^c  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e CLEVELAND METROPARKS ZOO   (United States)

^f DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Callitrichidae; Leontopithecus rosalia; Saguinus geoffroyi; Vomeronasal organ; tubulin III

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SPECIFICITY; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MARMOSET; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PALATE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

CALLITRICHIDAE; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; LEONTOPITHECUS ROSALIA; LORIDAE; MARMOSETS; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS; SAGUINUS GEOFFROYI; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR;

EID: 2442573753     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20035     Document Type: Article

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