Levels of Homology and the Problem of Neocortex

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue , 2015, Pages 351-368

  Dugas Ford, Jennifer ^a   Ragsdale, Clifton W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Evolution; Mammals; Pallium; Telencephalon

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

AMNIOTE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; PYRIFORM CORTEX; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; MAMMALS; NEOCORTEX; PIRIFORM CORTEX; REPTILES;

EID: 84937403976     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-071714-033911     Document Type: Article

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