Divergence of brain and retinal anatomy and histology in pelagic antarctic notothenioid fishes of the sister taxa Dissostichus and Pleuragramma

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 272, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-441

  Eastman, Joseph T ^a   Lannoo, Michael J ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Indiana University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological diversification; Photoreceptors; Relative weights of brain regions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; LATERAL LINE SYSTEM; OLFACTORY BULB; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; LATERAL LINE SYSTEM; OLFACTORY BULB; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS;

DISSOSTICHUS; DISSOSTICHUS ELEGINOIDES; DISSOSTICHUS MAWSONI; ELEGINOPS; ELEGINOPS MACLOVINUS; PERCIFORMES; PISCES; PLEURAGRAMMA; PLEURAGRAMMA ANTARCTICUM;

EID: 79952535300     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: 10974687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10926     Document Type: Article

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