A common developmental plan for neocortical gene-expressing neurons in the pallium of the domestic chicken gallus gallus domesticus and the Chinese softshell turtle pelodiscus sinensis

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

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

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evolution; Neocortex; Neuron type; Pallium; Turtle

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CTIP2; FEZF2; FOXP1; MOLECULAR MARKER; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR BETA; SATB2; TBR1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ER81; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NEURONAL ARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ISOLATION; TURTLE;

EID: 84898744987     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00020     Document Type: Article

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