A conserved pattern of brain scaling from sharks to primates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 12946-12951

  Yopak, Kara E ^a,b   Lisney, Thomas J ^c,d   Darlington, Richard B ^e   Collin, Shaun P ^d,f   Montgomery, John C ^b   Finlay, Barbara L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allometry; Cerebellar foliation; Chondrichthyan; Mammal; Neuroevolution

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; DIENCEPHALON; ECOLOGY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; EVOLUTION; OLFACTORY BULB; ORGAN SIZE; PRIMATES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SHARKS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CHONDRICHTHYES; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955594317     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002195107     Document Type: Article

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