Elephants Have Relatively the Largest Cerebellum Size of Mammals

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 661-672

  Maseko, Busisiwe C ^a   Spocter, Muhammad A ^a,b   Haagensen, Mark ^c   Manger, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b DES MOINES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Afrotheria; Hemisphere; Proboscidea; Vermis; Volumetrics

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; ELEPHANT; HEMISPHERE; MALE; MAMMAL; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CEREBELLUM; ELEPHANTS; MALE; MAMMALS; ORGAN SIZE;

AFROTHERIA; ARTIODACTYLA; CETACEA; CHIROPTERA; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAMMALIA; MICROCHIROPTERA; PRIMATES; PROBOSCIDEA (MAMMAL);

EID: 84858298550     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22425     Document Type: Article

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