Dramatic increases in number of cerebellar granule-cell-Purkinje-cell synapses across several mammals

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 163-169

  Huang, Chiming ^a   Gammon, Samantha J ^a   Dieterle, Michael ^a   Huang, Rosa H ^c   Likins, Lee ^a   Ricklefs, R E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Cerebellum; Parallel fiber

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LEARNING; MAMMAL; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; RODENT;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84899487949     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: 16181476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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