The influence of genome and cell size on brain morphology in amphibians

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Roth, Gerhard ^a   Walkowiak, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENOME;

EID: 84940877838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019075     Document Type: Article

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