Evolutionary plasticity of habenular asymmetry with a conserved efferent connectivity pattern

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Villalón, Aldo ^a,b,c   Sepúlveda, Mauricio ^a,b   Guerrero, Néstor ^a,b   Meynard, Margarita M ^a,b   Palma, Karina ^a,b   Concha, Miguel L ^a,b  

^a Biomedical Neuroscience Institute ^*  (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FEMALE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HABENULA; INTERPEDUNCULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEOST; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYPRINIFORMES; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY;

DANIO RERIO; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CYPRINIDAE; FEMALE; HABENULA; MALE;

EID: 84859784467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035329     Document Type: Article

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