Emerging from the bottleneck: Benefits of the comparative approach to modern neuroscience

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 273-278

  Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a   Zakon, Harold H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative; Model; Mouse; Translational

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; HISTORY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROSCIENCES; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84928427291     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2015.02.008     Document Type: Review

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