The vomeronasal complex of nocturnal strepsirhines and implications for the ancestral condition in primates

Anatomical Record

Volumn 296, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1881-1894

  Garrett, Eva C ^a,b   Dennis, John C ^c   Bhatnagar, Kunwar P ^d,j   Durham, Emily L ^e   Burrows, Anne M ^e,f,j   Bonar, Christopher J ^g   Steckler, Natalie K ^c,h   Morrison, Edward E ^c   Smith, Timothy D ^f,i,j  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^e DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^g Dallas World Aquarium   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

ⁱ SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Accessory olfactory system; Olfaction; Primate evolution; Strepsirhini; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

GAP43 PROTEIN; OLFACTORY MARKER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARTILAGE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; FACE; FETUS; FOSSIL PRIMATE; MAXILLA; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLOGY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RODENT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ACCESSORY OLFACTORY SYSTEM; OLFACTION; PRIMATE EVOLUTION; STREPSIRHINI; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; PRIMATES; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; STREPSIRHINI; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84888029083     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22828     Document Type: Article

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