Neocortical neurogenesis is not really "neo": A new evolutionary model derived from a comparative study of chick pallial development

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 173-187

  Suzuki, Ikuo K ^a,b   Hirata, Tatsumi ^a,b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evolution; Layer specific subtype; Neocortex; Neural progenitor; Pallium

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; BIRD; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHICK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PONS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEM CELLS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84872158007     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12020     Document Type: Review

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