Development of the nasal chemosensory organs in two terrestrial anurans: The directly developing frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui (Anura: Leptodactylidae), and the metamorphosing toad, Bufo americanus (Anura: Bufonidae)

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 225-248

  Jermakowicz III, Walter J ^a   Dorsey, David A ^a   Brown, Amy L ^a   Wojciechowski, Karen ^a   Giscombe, Claudette L ^a   Graves, Brent M ^b   Summers, Cliff H ^c   Ten Eyck, Gary R ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct development; Metamorphosis; Olfactory organ; Ontogeny; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FROGS AND TOADS; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; NOSE CAVITY; ODOR; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; NASAL CAVITY; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; PHYLOGENY; SMELL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO AMERICANUS; BUFONIDAE; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; NEOBATRACHIA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4043107099     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10246     Document Type: Article

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