The importance of scientific collecting and natural history museums for comparative neuroanatomy

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1225, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Iwaniuk, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Comparative method; Marsupials; Natural history museums; Neuroanatomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; MARSUPIAL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SPECIES; TISSUE SECTION;

AVES; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79956188595     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.05977.x     Document Type: Article

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