Preserved brain of the Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799)) from the Yakutian permafrost

Quaternary International

Volumn 406, Issue , 2016, Pages 86-93

  Kharlamova, Anastasia ^a   Saveliev, Sergey ^a   Kurtova, Anastasia ^a   Chernikov, Valery ^a   Protopopov, Albert ^b   Boeskorov, Genady ^c   Plotnikov, Valery ^b   Ushakov, Vadim ^d   Maschenko, Evgeny ^e  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HUMAN MORPHOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b Russian Federal Service for Surveillance of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing   (Russian Federation)

^c DIAMOND AND PRECIOUS METAL GEOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Brain; Late Pleistocene; Permafrost; Yuka Woolly mammoth

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BRAIN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; MAMMOTH; PERMAFROST; PLEISTOCENE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; LAPTEV SEA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA;

MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 84924055090     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.073     Document Type: Article

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