Comparison of area 17 cellular composition in laboratory and wild-caught rats including diurnal and nocturnal species

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-130

  Campi, Katharine L ^a   Collins, Christine E ^b   Todd, William D ^c   Kaas, Jon ^b   Krubitzer, Leah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecture; Area 17; Cellular composition; Evolution; Isotropic fractionator; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DARK ADAPTATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ACROCERAS MACRUM; ANIMALIA; ARVICANTHIS NILOTICUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79955587265     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324862     Document Type: Article

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