Interspecies avian brain chimeras reveal that large brain size differences are influenced by cell-interdependent processes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Chun Chun ^a   Balaban, Evan ^b   Jarvis, Erich D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DENSITY; CELL INTERDEPENDENT PROCESS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CHIMERA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FINCH; INNERVATION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; RETINA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FINCHES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY;

AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA; FRINGILLIDAE; PHASIANIDAE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84864482807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042477     Document Type: Article

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