Parallel Emergence of True Handedness in the Evolution of Marsupials and Placentals

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 1878-1884

  Giljov, Andrey ^a   Karenina, Karina ^a   Ingram, Janeane ^b   Malashichev, Yegor ^a,c  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTHERIA; HOMINIDAE; MACROPUS RUFUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PRIMATES;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; EVOLUTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; KANGAROO; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACROPODIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84937514407     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.043     Document Type: Article

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