Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7471, 2013, Pages 364-367

  Tanaka, Gengo ^a   Hou, Xianguang ^b   Ma, Xiaoya ^b,c   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^c   Strausfeld, Nicholas J ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BRAIN; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; PALEOBIOLOGY; PRESERVATION; SPECIALIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHELICERATE; GANGLION; LIMULUS; MANDIBULATE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMERE; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BRAIN; CHINA; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; GANGLIA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPIL; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84885791921     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12520     Document Type: Article

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