Organization of the olfactory and respiratory skeleton in the nose of the gray short-tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica

Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 303-336

  Rowe, Timothy B ^a,b   Eiting, Thomas P ^a   Macrini, Thomas E ^a   Ketcham, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Ethmoid; Mesethmoid; Turbinals; Vomer; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

DIDELPHIDAE; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 28644434499     PISSN: 10647554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10914-005-5731-5     Document Type: Article

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