Comparative brain architecture of the European shore crab Carcinus maenas (Brachyura) and the common hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus (Anomura) with notes on other marine hermit crabs

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 348, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-69

  Krieger, Jakob ^a   Sombke, Andy ^a   Seefluth, Florian ^a   Kenning, Matthes ^a   Hansson, Bill S ^b   Harzsch, Steffen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crustaceans; Immunohistochemistry; Nervous system; Neuroanatomy; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

ALLATOSTATIN; F ACTIN; PHENYLALANYLMETHIONYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE; SYNAPSIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOMURA; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; CARCINUS MAENAS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PAGURUS BERNHARDUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; ANOMURA; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BRACHYURA; BRAIN; EUROPE; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

ANOMURA; BRACHYURA; CARCINUS MAENAS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PAGURUS BERNHARDUS;

EID: 84859443022     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1353-4     Document Type: Article

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