Mammalian skull heterochrony reveals modular evolution and a link between cranial development and brain size

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Koyabu, Daisuke ^a,b   Werneburg, Ingmar ^a   Morimoto, Naoki ^a   Zollikofer, Christoph P E ^a   Forasiepi, Analia M ^a,c   Endo, Hideki ^b   Kimura, Junpei ^d   Ohdachi, Satoshi D ^e   Truong Son, Nguyen ^f   Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMMON ANCESTRY; CRANIUM; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); MAMMAL;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMAL OSSIFICATION; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HETEROCHRONY; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MAMMAL; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OSSIFICATION; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; SKULL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAMMALS; OSTEOGENESIS; SKULL;

EID: 84898724187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4625     Document Type: Article

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